pipeclay

plural pipeclays

1. countableuncountableCatlinite

   Synonyms: pipestone

present singular third person pipeclays · participle present pipeclaying · participle past pipeclayed · past pipeclayed

1. transitiveTo whiten by application of pipeclay.

   The walls were lined with paper-bark, pipe-clayed and panelled with polished bloodwood.

   1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, page 92

   1 more example

   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.

   1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “An Encounter”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 24

2. UKdatedslangtransitiveTo clear off.

   to pipeclay accounts

1. A locality in the Port Macquarie-Hastings council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.