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pipelay

English

Etymology

pipe +? lay

Noun

pipelay (plural pipelays)

  1. The laying of pipes or a pipeline.

Anagrams

  • lay pipe

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pipeclay

English

Etymology

pipe +? clay

Pronunciation

Noun

pipeclay (countable and uncountable, plural pipeclays)

  1. catlinite

Synonyms

  • pipestone

Verb

pipeclay (third-person singular simple present pipeclays, present participle pipeclaying, simple past and past participle pipeclayed)

  1. (transitive) To whiten by application of pipeclay.
    • 1914, James Joyce, An Encounter (in Dubliners)
      I sat up on the coping of the bridge admiring my frail canvas shoes which I had diligently pipeclayed overnight and watching the docile horses pulling a tramload of business people up the hill.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VII, p. 92, [1]
      The walls were lined with paper-bark, pipe-clayed and panelled with polished bloodwood.
  2. (transitive, slang, dated, Britain) To clear off.
    to pipeclay accounts

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