Etymology
Origin of pipestem
Example Sentences
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At Mount Zion Hospital, he is still a human disaster, his knee the size of a grapefruit in his frail, pipestem leg.
From Time Magazine Archive
He appears before his public with his pipestem legs encased in garish blue pants, with embroidered silver guitars running down the seams.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were spidery little animals with pinpoint noses, whittled bodies, pipestem legs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The final ballot looked "big as a quilt" to Candidate Barkley, who bit off his pipestem.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Slithers of deer in thet piece across thar,” pointing with his pipestem to the foot of Timberland Mountain.
From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert
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