pipe the eye

verb

pipe the eye

verb

Etymology A metaphor alluding to the boatswain's pipe, which calls to duty.

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Archaic, Idiomatic To weep.

He first began to eye his pipe, / And then to pipe his eye.a. 1845, Thomas Hood, Faithless Sally Brown:

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