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water pipe
noun
- 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.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of water pipe1
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Example Sentences
“This man never says anything new,” said Mahmoud Ghanim, adding a pinch of sweet-smelling tobacco to his water pipe.
Thus A laid a water pipe by permission across B's land who afterward rendered the pipe useless by cutting it.
He had taken quite naturally to the Turkish tobacco, and the national mode of smoking it through a chibouque, or water-pipe.
There is a rain-water pipe going up the side of the house, close to the window.
He stopped at the house of Lal Singh, the shoemaker, whom he found drowsing over his water pipe.
Beside these, twenty miles of water-pipe travel up and down the corridors to supply culinary and domestic needs.
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