Etymology
Origin of pipestem
Example Sentences
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A similar change in major arteries is often seen in the aged: the muscular wall hardens so much that the vessels are called "pipestem arteries."
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His expression is at once attentive and stolid; his strong jaw is often clamped firmly on a pipestem.
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At their second session, beside the hotel swimming pool, the two men pored intently over a large map of the Middle East and Southwest Asia, with Sadat using his pipestem as a pointer.
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They were spidery little animals with pinpoint noses, whittled bodies, pipestem legs.
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"Ay," said the old man, shutting his lips tight on his pipestem and puffing with a smacking noise, "let me catch Thomas at that!"
From Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry by Ralph Connor
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