<hw>Pipe</hw>, <i>n</i>. an obsolete word, explained in quotations.
1836. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 105:
"These were the days of `pipes.' Certain supposed home truths . . . were indited in clear and legible letters on a piece of paper which was then rolled up in the form of a pipe, and being held together by twisting at one end was found at the door of the person intended to be instructed on its first opening in the morning."
1852. J. West, `History of Tasmania,' vol. i. p. 107:
"Malice or humour in the early days expressed itself in what were called <i>pipes</i>—a ditty either taught by repetition or circulated on scraps of paper: the offences of official men were thus hitched into rhyme. These pipes were a substitute for the newspaper, and the fear of satire checked the haughtiness of power."
<hw>Pipe-fish</hw>, <i>n</i>. common fishname. The species present in Australia and New Zealand is <i>Ichthyocampus filum</i>, Gunth., family <i>Syngnathidae</i>, or <i>Pipe-fishes</i>.
<hw>Piper</hw>, <i>n</i>. an Auckland name for the <i>Garfish</i> (q.v.). The name is applied to other fishes in the Northern Hemisphere.
1872. Hutton and Hector, `Fishes of New Zealand,' p. 118:
"Angling for garfish in Auckland Harbour, where it is known as the piper, is graphically described in `The Field,' London, Nov. 25, 1871. . . . the pipers are `just awfu' cannibals,' and you will be often informed on Auckland wharf that `pipers is deeth on piper.'"
<hw>Pipi</hw>, <i>n</i>. Maori name of a shellfish, sometimes (erroneously) called the cockle, <i>Mezodesma novae-zelandiae</i>.