TOBACCO PIPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tobacco pipe mean? 

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

1. a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOBACCO PIPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pipe; tobacco pipe

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

tube; tubing (conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases)

Meronyms (parts of "tobacco pipe"):

bowl; pipe bowl (a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco)

mouthpiece (the tube of a pipe or cigarette holder that a smoker holds in the mouth)

stem (the tube of a tobacco pipe)

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

briar; briar pipe (a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath)

calabash; calabash pipe (a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd)

calumet; peace pipe; pipe of peace (a highly decorated ceremonial pipe of Amerindians; smoked on ceremonial occasions (especially as a token of peace))

clay pipe (a pipe made of clay)

calean; chicha; hookah; hubble-bubble; hubbly-bubbly; kalian; narghile; nargileh; sheesha; shisha; water pipe (an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water)

meerschaum (a pipe having a bowl made of meerschaum)

 Context examples 

He sat for a while very sorrowfully, then suddenly he felt in his pocket and found his tobacco pipe, which was still half full.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)