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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1633
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(Pipar,) -er, n.2 (e.m.E. (1632) one who smokes tobacco in a pipe.) —1633 Boyd Balm of Gilead in Last B. xlviii.
What count should such firie pipers make to God if death … should seaze vpon them with that fire pipe at their mouth?
