The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pipe clay \Pipe" clay`\ (kl[=a]`). A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, -- used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldiers' equipments.
Usage examples of "pipe clay".
They also use carbonate of soda, fuller's earth, and pipe clay for the brilliant robes of election candidates.
Most doll parts available to the Native Americans were cast in pipe clay from a two-piece mold.
Then the air quivered to the bark of commands, the crack and slap of muskets being brought to the present, pipe clay drifting above and around the twin ranks of gleaming bayonets.
He learned to pipe clay belts, blackball boots and speak his own version of English which, because it came from the lower ranks, was liable to shock the gentler born.
Runciman and Kiely had returned with no muskets, no ammunition, no blankets, no pipe clay, no boots, no knapsacks and not even a promise of money for the unit's back pay.