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water pipe
(redirected from Water conduit)

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water pipe
n.
1. A pipe that is a conduit for water.
2. An apparatus for smoking, such as a hookah, in which the smoke is drawn through a container of water or ice and cooled before inhaling.
water pipe
n
1. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a pipe for water
2. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Brewing) another name for hookah
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Noun1.water pipe - an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through waterwater pipe - an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola"
calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha
pipe, tobacco pipe - a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
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Part of this reinscription included having the water conduits of the city literally run with wine in a reification of the "commonplace humanist image for the operation of monarchical government" (79).
The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainment of Queen Elizabeth I by Budra, Paul / Renaissance Quarterly
But the main feature using the water conduit in the Cheaping as a stage was St George.
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3) Up until the Empire's decline, the tiered arches of monumental water conduits dominated the cityscape, each aqueduct terminating in a huge fountain adorned with statues and water shrines immortalizing stern gods, great men and noble deeds.
The stuff of life: throughout history, human progress has generally ... by Slessor, Catherine / The Architectural Review
 
 
 
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