tobacco pipe
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- noun
- /təˈbækoʊ paɪp/
:
pipa de tabaco
- The old man's tobacco pipe was a cherished heirloom passed down through generations.
Examples
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Soon, the team began finding pottery sherds, pieces of glass, clay tobacco pipes, and other indicators that there had been houses on the site at some point.
Academic text (2017) -
I finished no more than two little pictures. (He did, however, paint some miniatures under the guidance of Jacob Hoefnagel and particularly remembers one, not without pride, in which he had depicted two hazelnuts, the end of a candle, a tobacco pipe, and a rather large fly, all from life.)
Academic text (1991) -
The day after my visit, they found white clay tobacco pipe pieces here.
Academic text (2011) -
"Hookah, an Oriental tobacco pipe..."
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My daddy's tobacco pipe shines from its place on my bedroom wall shelf.
Blog text (18) -
It is a hot July day in northern New York State, and I am standing in a deep, partially excavated cellar where some of my students and volunteers are patiently mapping wine bottles and tobacco pipes that were intended for sale to soldiers in the British Army.
Academic text (2007) -
They are dressed in European style, and while their training is in polite, proper domestic behavior, they constantly corrupt it with their demonstrative displays of affection and their clay tobacco pipes to which they are addicted.
Fiction book (1993) -
He filled his tobacco pipe with fresh tobacco before relaxing on the porch.
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During the historical reenactment, participants used a tobacco pipe to create an authentic atmosphere.
Synonyms
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A small tube with a bowl for smoking tobacco
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A long pipe that cools smoke in water for people to breathe in
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A smoking device where smoke passes through water before you breathe it in
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A small pipe for smoking tobacco made from baked clay
An old clay pipe with a long stem for smoking, often from 17th or 18th century England
A smoking pipe with a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd
A straight cone-shaped pipe used for smoking, often in South Asia
A traditional pipe used in ceremonies for shared smoking
A long pipe for smoking tobacco where smoke passes through water before you inhale
A pipe for smoking flavored tobacco through water with a long tube
A long pipe with a water bowl that people use to smoke tobacco
A pipe with a long tube that passes tobacco smoke through water
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'tobacco' (dried leaves for smoking) + 'pipe' (a small bowl-ended tube for smoking) yields a pipe used for smoking tobacco. This straightforward noun–noun compound follows a common cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Tobacco pipe comes from a simple, literal picture: people put dried tobacco leaves in the small bowl of a pipe and draw the smoke through a tube. That's why the name means 'a small tube with a bowl used for smoking tobacco'.