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pipeclay

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Etymology

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From pipe +‎ clay.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pipeclay (countable and uncountable, plural pipeclays)

  1. catlinite

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Verb

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pipeclay (third-person singular simple present pipeclays, present participle pipeclaying, simple past and past participle pipeclayed)

  1. (transitive) To whiten by application of pipeclay.
    • 19041907 (date written), James Joyce, “An Encounter”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia[1], page 92:
      The walls were lined with paper-bark, pipe-clayed and panelled with polished bloodwood.
  2. (transitive, slang, dated, UK) To clear off.
    to pipeclay accounts








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