water pipe
a pipe for conveying water.
a smoking apparatus, as a hookah or narghile, in which the smoke is drawn through a container of water and cooled before reaching the mouth.
Origin of water pipe
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How to use water pipe in a sentence
It prohibited women from smoking water pipes in public, apparently because they considered this to be suggestive.
Our water pipes, our sewage, our roads, fail largely out of sight.
This was a large, yellow-washed room with beams making triangles overhead and hot-water pipes running round the walls below.
Mushroom Town | Oliver OnionsWhen the water pipes connecting a range boiler become frozen, get a plumber and avoid an explosion of the water back.
The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 | VariousMany times he had been sent up rain-water pipes by the hand-organ man.
Mappo, the Merry Monkey | Richard Barnum
In the night the water pipes had burst and flooded the kitchen floor, which by morning was covered with a layer of ice.
Molly Brown's Sophomore Days | Nell SpeedWhen I let down the line at the fifth point, the two men asked permission to light their water-pipes.
Trans-Himalaya, Vol. 2 (of 2) | Sven Hedin
British Dictionary definitions for water pipe
a pipe for water
another name for hookah
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