1. A pipe for smoking tobacco, made of clay, wood, or other material, of various shapes and sizes, consisting of a bowl in which the tobacco is placed and ignited, with a slender tube through which the smoke of it is drawn into the mouth by suction, King’s (Queen’s) tobacco-pipe: see PIPE sb.1 10 c.
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden, Wks. (Grosart), III. 199. The pummell of a scotch saddle, or pan of a Tobacco pipe.
1597–8. Bp. Hall, Sat., V. ii. Nor half that smoke … Which one tobacco-pipe drives thro’ his nose.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., V. 205. The Turkish Tobacco pipes are more than a yard long.
1861. Wright, Ess. Archæol., I. ii. 27. Tobacco pipes have been found … in very singular approximations with objects of remote antiquity.
2. U.S. Local name for a parasitic plant, also called Indian pipe: see INDIAN A. 4 b.
1845. S. Judd, Margaret, I. xvi. She found … the curious mushroom-like tobacco-pipe.
3. attrib. and Comb., as tobacco-pipe bowl, maker; tobacco-pipe clay = PIPE-CLAY; tobacco-pipe fish = PIPE-FISH.
1620–1. Canterb. Marr. Licences (MS.). John Lyne of Canterbury, tobacco-pipe-maker.
1667. Lond. Gaz., No. 156/4. One [vessel] … laden with Tobacco-pipe Clay, and Fullers-Earth.
a. 1672. Willughby, Ichthyogr. (1686), Tab. 6. Petinbuaba Bras.: Tobacco pipe Fish.
1804. Tingry, Paint. & Varnish. Guide, 280. A white earthy matter, commonly known under the name of tobacco-pipe clay.
1876. Goode, Fishes Bermudas, 17. Petimbuabo Brazil (The Tobaccopipe-Fish) is Fistularia tabaccaria.
