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Meaning of yard of clay | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A long pipe for smoking; a churchwarden pipe.

Examples

“[…] he failed repeatedly until he took over his famous house in Haymarket, where for many years, surrounded by such admirers as Byron, Tom Moore and Hazlitt, he smoked his yard of clay, drained his glass of 'daffy', and […]”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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See also

yard of land yard of satin yard pilot yard rope yard sale yard slug

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