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pipestone
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
any of various types of stone suitable for making tobacco pipes or calumets.
Quotations
1761
[The] name is derived from the pièrre a Calumet, or pipe-stone, which here interrupts the river, occasioning a fall of water.
1885
His materials were the . . . black pipestone of Lake Huron; the . . . white pipestone procured on St. Joseph Island, and the . . . red pipestone of Coteau des Prairies.
1956
. . . tobacco pipes, which were of a soft black stone or of a bright red stone which they got from a special pipestone quarry in Minnesota.