Pipe

(pīp.) [Fr.] A long tube or hollow body, used as a conductor of water or other fluids. The pipes used underground were formerly of wood, but are now almost always, in this country, of metal. They are, when large, of cast-iron, with a socket at one extremity, into which the end of the next pipe is inserted. Lead pipes are much employed on account of the facility with which they can be soldered and bent in any direction; but they ought not to be used for conveying water or other liquids intended to be drunk.-(Mus.) A wind instrument, smaller than af lute. The word is not now the proper technical name of any particular instrument. (Cambistry.) Awine measure, usually containing 105 imperial, or 126 wine gallons. But, in commerce, the size of the pipe varies according to the description of wine it contains. Thus, a pipe of port is about 128 wine gallons; of sherry, 130; Lisbon and Bucellas, 140; Madeira, 110; and Vidonia, 120. [s. 711]