Definition of "briar pipe" []

• A pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set aquiline features."
• "It was on the fifteenth of September last that an agricultural labourer, James Flynn, in the employment of Mathew Dodd, farmer, of the Chauntry Farm, Withyham, perceived a briar pipe lying near the footpath which skirts the hedge in Lower Haycock."
• "She opened the stove door and lit a briar pipe with a broomstraw."