Obs. rare. [In sense 2 f. twire TUYERE. Sense 1 may have the same origin.]
1. App. a contemptuous name for a musical pipe; in quots. applied to persons.
1605. Chapman, etc., Eastward Hoe, V. H 3 c. I haue saide your Beard was a base one, Father; and that you lookt like Twierpipe the Taberer.
1619. Fletcher, Mons. Thomas, III. i. Ye are an Ass, a twirepipe, A Jeffery John bo peepe.
2. A tuyere-pipe: see TUYERE b.
1674. Petty, Disc. Dupl. Proportion, 105. The Bellows … rising in double Quickness admits double air … the whole passing through the same Twire-pipe in half the time.
