pipeclay
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.05 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A locality in the Port Macquarie-Hastings council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The walls were lined with paper-bark, pipe-clayed and panelled with polished bloodwood."
- "to pipeclay accounts"
Etymology
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- Transitive verb
- British usage
- Dated
- Slang