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hair-pipe

hair-pipe is the alternative form of hair pipe.

Meaning of hair pipe

Noun

hair pipe (plural hair pipes)

  1. A type of long, cylindrical bead from North America used in the creation of personal adornments, principally by Native Americans.
    • Wampum, Weoka / “ hair pipes, Waebosndata1850, Caleb Atwater, “Rudiments of the Grammar of the Sioux Language”, in The Indians of the Northwest: Their Maners, Customs, &c. &c,, Columbus, →OCLC, page 168

Forms of hair-pipe

pluralhair-pipes

Questions about hair-pipe

What is hair-pipe the alternative form of?
Hair-pipe is the alternative form of hair pipe.

Words near hair-pipe in the dictionary

  1. hair-knots
  2. hair-like
  3. hair-net
  4. hair-nets
  5. hair-on-fire
  6. hair-pipe
  7. hair-pipes
  8. hair-pulling disorder
  9. hair-raiser
  10. hair-raisers
  11. hair-raising

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