tobacco pipe
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tobacco pipe (plural tobacco pipes)
A small, hand-held device consisting in its simplest form of a bowl and stem; used for inhaling the smoke of burning tobacco.
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The English word came into general use in 1730. citation History Indigenous tobacco pipe on display at the regional museum in San Andrés Tuxtla Explorer Christopher Columbus is generally credited with the introduction of tobacco to Europe.
Churchwarden main A churchwarden pipe is a tobacco pipe with a long stem.
The preferred material was pipeclay or "tobacco pipe clay", which fires to a white colour and is only found in certain locations.
Zhukov was even able to gauge Stalin's mood; for example, when Stalin drew deeply on his tobacco pipe, it was a sign of a good mood.