1.  A pipe through which water is conducted.

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14[?].  Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 666/37. Hec idraulis, waterpype.

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14[?].  Nominale, Ibid., 738/12. Hic idraicus, a wadyrpype.

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1585.  Higins, Junius’ Nomencl., 392/1. Euripi,… water pipes of smaller size, so made, as that ye water therin mounteth aloft.

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1694.  Lond. Gaz., No. 3026/3. The Inhabitants of Paris … are to pay 50 Crowns for every Water-Pipe.

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1707.  Mortimer, Husb., 363. The Wood for Piles, Pumps, Hop-poles, Water-pipes.

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1812.  H. & J. Smith, Rej. Adir., Tale Drury Lane, 165. Still o’er his head,… His whizzing water-pipe he waived.

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1836.  Dickens, Sk. Boz, Vauxhall Gardens. The fountain that had sparkled so showily by lamp-light, presented very much the appearance of a water-pipe that had burst.

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1869.  Mozley, Lett. (1885), 308. The workmen were laying down water-pipes in the hall as we entered.

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  2.  transf. † a. (See remarks under WATERSPOUT sb. 3). Obs. b. An underground spring or flow of water. poet.

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1539.  Bible, Ps. xlii. 8. One depe calleth another because of ye noyse of thy water pipes.

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1832.  Tennyson, Dream Fair Wom., liii. Single I grew, like some green plant, whose root Creeps to the garden water-pipes beneath, Feeding the flower.

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  † c.  A name for a kind of stalactite. Obs.

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1681.  [see STALACTITES].

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  3.  A hookah, narghile, or kalian.

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1824.  Morier, Hajji Baba, viii. Ali Katir … had just lighted his water pipe.

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1882.  E. O’Donovan, Merv Oasis, I. 330. We saw the white-robed elders (smoking their water-pipes) seated on either side the entry.

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