Crossword clues for pipeclay
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pipeclay \Pipe"clay`\, v. t.
To whiten or clean with pipe clay, as a soldier's accouterments.
To clear off; as, to pipeclay accounts. [Slang, Eng.]
Wiktionary
n. catlinite vb. 1 To whiten by application of pipeclay. 2 (context slang dated UK English) To clear off.
WordNet
n. fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather [syn: terra alba]
Wikipedia
Pipeclay may refer to:
- White-firing clay of the sort that is used to fashion smoking pipes
- Pipeclay triangle, a piece of laboratory equipment, typically made from this material
- Catlinite Pipestone, found in Sioux Quartzite deposits in the upper midwestern and southwestern United States
- Pipeclay National Park in Australia
Usage examples of "pipeclay".
Their coats were a brilliant scarlet, their crossbelts pipeclayed white, their boots a mirror-surfaced black.
He wore a pipeclayed leather belt and holster, the 45 automatic slung at full cock butt-forward at his left side.
I sat up on the coping of the bridge admiring my frail canvas shoes which I had diligently pipeclayed overnight and watching the docile horses pulling a tramload of business people up the hill.
Each private earned a shilling a day, seventeen pounds and sixteen shillings a year, but by the time he had been deducted for food, for washing, for pipeclay and blackball, for soling and heeling, and the one day's pay each year that went to the Military hospitals at Chelsea and Kilmainham, each man was left with the three sevens.
The telescope had shown him the glittering array aboard the flagship, the scarlet and pipeclayed marines, the officers in their number-one cocked hats, the Admiral glorious in blue and gold.