Definition of "pipeman" []

• A firefighter. (noun)
• One who smokes a pipe. (noun)

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• "Two more of the arriving reinforcements failed to appear to the public eye at the scene of congratulation, and, as sometimes happens in even so well regulated a family as our little army, these were the two who most deserved any honors that were being bestowed, -- Mr. Davies and his assistant pipeman."
• "And here she turned as though to seek the other pipeman, while Tibbetts effusively -- impulsively -- began to make amends."
• "Mr. Foote was as dry as a bone, until the pipeman saw him, and they nailed him up against the wall with a stream and Foote was damp as a wet nurse in a minute."