pipe
noun
a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Look, how you have to waken all these dead, That walk about you!—Open their dim eyes; Sing to them with your heart, Veronika, As I am piping, far away, outside!
From The Piper by Josephine Preston Peabody