different between pipestone vs pipeclay
pipestone
English
Etymology
pipe +? stone
Noun
pipestone (countable and uncountable, plural pipestones)
- A hard, red clay used by Native Americans for making tobacco pipes.
Derived terms
- Pipestone County
Anagrams
- Pepitones, peptonise
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pipeclay
English
Etymology
pipe +? clay
Pronunciation
Noun
pipeclay (countable and uncountable, plural pipeclays)
- catlinite
Synonyms
- pipestone
Verb
pipeclay (third-person singular simple present pipeclays, present participle pipeclaying, simple past and past participle pipeclayed)
- (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.
- 1914, James Joyce, An Encounter (in Dubliners)
- (transitive, slang, dated, Britain) To clear off.
- to pipeclay accounts
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