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A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.

Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus.

A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line; -- so called because it resembles the letter T in shape.

A pipit. [Prov. Eng.]

The spotted sandpiper. See the Note under Sandpiper.

The rock pipit. [Prov. Eng.]

A sandpiper (Terekia cinerea) of the Old World, breeding in the far north of eastern Europe and Asia and migrating to South Africa and Australia. It frequents rivers.

A pipe, funnel, or chimney, as for smoke. Chaucer.

A tank containing pipes through which circulates steam, water, air, or the like, for heating or cooling; -- used in some heating and ventilation systems.

Windpipe; throttle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.

mast. -- Throat halyards (Naut.), halyards that raise the throat of the gaff. -- Throat pipe (Anat.), the windpipe, or trachea. -- To give one the lie in his throat, to accuse one pointedly of lying abominably. -- To lie in one's throat, to lie flatly or abominably.

The windpipe. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand. Sir W. Scott.

Of or pertaining to a pipe or flute. Tibial spur (Zoöl.), a spine frequently borne on the tibia of insects. See Illust. under Coleoptera.

To play on a tibia, or pipe. [R.]

A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty- five imperial, gallons.

The meadow pipit. [Prov. Eng].

A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattr…

The spotted sandpiper; -- called also teeter-tail. See under Sandpiper.