PIPEWORK

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pipework mean? 

• PIPEWORK (noun)
  The noun PIPEWORK has 1 sense:

1. the flues and stops on a pipe organ

  Familiarity information: PIPEWORK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIPEWORK (noun)

Meaning:

The flues and stops on a pipe organ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

organ pipe; pipework; pipe

Hypernyms ("pipework" is a kind of...):

wind; wind instrument (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pipework"):

flue; flue pipe; labial pipe (organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip)

organ stop (a graduated set of organ pipes of like tone quality)

reed pipe (organ pipe with a vibrating reed)

Holonyms ("pipework" is a part of...):

organ; pipe organ (wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard)