pipestem
/pahyp-stem/US // ˈpaɪpˌstɛm //
琵琶网,琵琶岛,琵琶湾,琵琶湖
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the stem of a tobacco pipe.
- : something resembling this in slenderness, as an unusually thin arm or leg.
Examples
The mouthpiece of the pipestem was gently presented to the lips and the breath drawn through.
Ford knocked the ashes from his pipe so hard that the pipestem fell in two.
The gnawed and blackened end of a cane pipestem stood out of his breast pocket, rising like a frosted weed stalk.
This stem is made up of little flat rings looking like bits of a pipestem.
As usual in colonial sites, quantities of pipestem and bowl fragments were recovered.
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