PIPEWORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pipework mean? 

• PIPEWORK (noun)
  The noun PIPEWORK has 1 sense:

1. the flues and stops on a pipe organ

  Familiarity information: PIPEWORK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIPEWORK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The flues and stops on a pipe organ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

organ pipe; pipe; pipework

Hypernyms ("pipework" is a kind of...):

wind; wind instrument (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath)

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

flue; flue pipe; labial pipe (organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip)

organ stop (a graduated set of organ pipes of like tone quality)

reed pipe (organ pipe with a vibrating reed)

Holonyms ("pipework" is a part of...):

organ; pipe organ (wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard)