CLAY PIPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clay pipe mean? 

• CLAY PIPE (noun)
  The noun CLAY PIPE has 1 sense:

1. a pipe made of clay

  Familiarity information: CLAY PIPE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLAY PIPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pipe made of clay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("clay pipe" is a kind of...):

pipe; tobacco pipe (a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clay pipe"):

dudeen (a clay pipe with a short stem)

 Context examples 

With difficulty he limped up to the door, where a squat, dark, elderly man was smoking a black clay pipe.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After all, Watson, said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his clay pipe, I am not retained by the police to supply their deficiencies.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A little later a rakish young workman, with a goatee beard and a swagger, lit his clay pipe at the lamp before descending into the street.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary Sutherland.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he took down from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of infinite languor in his face.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He curled himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)