Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pipe of a pipe-organ. See pipe.
  • noun Figuratively, the throat; the windpipe; hence, the voice.
  • noun In costume, a large piping; a rounded flute.

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Examples

  • The organ-pipe effect seemed to amplify the massed choirs of a bird I had always known as a rather annoying species of attention-seeking chirpy-chappie pecking a tiny mirror in a cage.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The organ-pipe effect seemed to amplify the massed choirs of a bird I had always known as a rather annoying species of attention-seeking chirpy-chappie pecking a tiny mirror in a cage.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The first two hours of this drive are especially fine -- four-lane toll road, some of it through mountain desert filled with giant saguaro and organ-pipe cactus.

    Road Trip: Mexico 2000

  • The first two hours of this drive are especially fine -- four-lane toll road, some of it through mountain desert filled with giant saguaro and organ-pipe cactus.

    Road Trip: Mexico 2000

  • The organ-pipe cactus blasted out louder music, and they began to dance.

    Dragon on a Pedestal Anthony, Piers 1983

  • The foothills loomed up here, too -- more lava formations, huge rocks balanced on top of each other and strewn along slopes that also bore catclaw, cholla, organ-pipe cactus abloom with pink and white and lavender flowers.

    Hoodwink Pronzini, Bill 1981

  • Figure 19, which shows the construction of a reed organ-pipe.

    The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller

  • Of course, an artificial mouthpiece has to be provided for our organ-pipe, but this is called the _boot_.

    The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller

  • Thus, by similarity of form we have _brain_ coral, _organ-pipe_ coral, _mushroom_ coral, _staghorn_ coral, etc.

    Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

  • They were frequently double, but the prototype of the reed organ-pipe is to be seen in the clarinet, where the reed is single and beats against the mouthpiece.

    The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller

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