English Dictionary

A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
Source : opted (163284)  - auto

A telescope.
Source : opted (163285)  - auto

A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
Source : opted (163286)  - auto

The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
Source : opted (163287)  - auto

A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.
Source : opted (163288)  - auto

A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.
Source : opted (163289)  - auto

A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.
Source : opted (163290)  - auto

One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.
Source : opted (163291)  - auto

To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
Source : opted (163294)  - auto

A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway.
Source : opted (182087)  - auto