pipe dance (pipdans)

A dance resembling the sword-dance, in which a number of clay tobacco-pipes are used instead of swords. Sometimes they do the pipe - dance . For this a number of tobacco-pipes, about a dozen, are laid close together on the floor, and the dancer places the toe of his boot between the different pipes, keeping time with the music. 4505 opening, through which the plastic clay is forced by heavy pre ure, to give it the form of a tube. The inside of the socket on the end of the pipe is shaped by what is called a lower die, and the outside of the socket is formed by device called the ring, which is interposed between the outside die and a flange on the lower die. 2. A female screw or nut of hardened and tempered steel used for cutting male threads on the ends of metal pipes. The threads of the die have grooves cut acro them parallel with the axis on which the die rotates. In cutting pipe-threads, these grooves afford clearance for escape of the metal cuttings, which would otherwise accumulate in the threads of the die and prevent a clean, uniform cut. 3. Any one of the radially arranged and simultaneously adjustable screw cutting-tools which in some kinds of pipe die-stocks have their inner ends formed like chasers for cutting male screws. (See chaser2.) A right-hand die is one that cuts a right-handed screw-thread. One which cuts a left-handed thread is a left-hand die. See screw - thread. Also called outside die.