PIPE Copy link • PIPE 1. s. Hollow body, tube, fistula: pipes of an organ, *fistularum compages, structura: tobacco pipe, *fumisugium; *tubulus. A musical instrument, tibia (clarionet): fistula (syrinx, or Pan’s pipes): arundo (cane): calamus (reed): cicuta (hemlock; all poetical for pipe). A kind of large wine-cask, *dolium majoris modi quod vocant Pipe. 2. v. tibia, fistula canere; fistulam inflare (to blow a pipe): more usually canere or cantare tibiis, plur.