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'''Aromatic''':  A type of tobacco which is either cased or top flavored in order to produce a taste and room note other than the tobacco's natural smell, whether simply sugar or molasses, whiskey or other alcohols, or many other flavorings.  Used as a major category for pipe tobaccos, along with non-aromatic and latakia based blends.

'''Author''':  According to the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the Author is a beefed-up prince, featuring a flattened ball-shaped bowl and a heavy 1/8 to 1/4 bent stem.

'''Ball''':  The ball shape, also referred to as a tomato, is described by the [[Author|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], is very similar to an author but with a spherical bowl and thinner shank.  According to Mr. Burney the ball generally features a tapered stem with a 1/4 to 1/2 bent.

'''Bakelite''':  A trade name for Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride.  Harder than vulcanite and softer than acrylic, bakelite stems do not oxidize.  Largely seen in shades of white and amber yellow.

'''Burley''':  A tobacco of light-colored variety grown primarily in Kentucky and Tennessee, the bulk of burley tobacco produced in the United States is used for cigarette production.  All burley today is of the white burley variety, and is often sweetened due to the low natural sugars present in the leaf.  Most aromatics use a base of burley due to its ready ability to absorb flavors.  While some claim burley does not age, it does improve with time.  However, this takes time measured in the several decades at least.

'''Button''':  The button is the raised portion at the end of a pipe mouthpiece or stem intended to permit the teeth purchase to hold the pipe.

'''Cavendish''':  There are two forms of Cavendish, which is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. Common cavendish is made when tobacco leaves are pressed into a cake about an inch thick and heated before being allowed to ferment, resulting in a mild and sweet tobacco. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia , which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.

'''Cherrywood''':  According to the [[Cherrywood|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a cherrywood is a bent poker.  The name cherrywood derives from the pipe shape's origin as a copy of the cherry wood pipes made by Eugène-Léon Ropp and others in mid-19th century France.

'''Cigar Leaf''':  A generic term used to describe a great many different types of leaf primarily used in cigars which are also included in pipe tobacco.  Connecticut Broadleaf and Cuban-Seed Varietals are frequently used among others to add flavor to a blend.

'''Cumberland''':  Called brindle by Dunhill and others, cumberland is a form of vulcanite made with brown and red pigment added to the rubber to give it a marble like appearance.

'''Cut''':  Pipe tobacco may be cut as shag, ribbon, flake, plug, rope, discs, coins, or in other forms.  These terms simply refer to the manner in which the finished product is reduced into a small enough size to consume.  The most common cut is ribbon cut.

'''Delayed Gratification Technique''':  Or DGT, the habit of some pipe smokers to light a pipe and leave it to sit for hours or even days before completing the smoke.  Many blends gain a far different taste profile from this technique which some find pleasant.

'''Delrin''':  A brand name for polyoxymethylne or POM, also called acetal, polyacetal, or polyformaldehyde, delrin is a thermoplastic used by pipe makers as a material for non-integral stem tenons, and for screw-in tenons for meerschaum push/pull connections.  Delrin is appreciated as a "self-lubricating" material, meaning that it has a low drag coefficient to interfere with the smooth passage of smoke, and for the ease of reliance on separate stems and tenons.

'''Don''':  A pipe shape, according to the [[Duke/Don|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], similar to a Duke but with a rudimentary shank and a vulcanite bit.  Sometimes, such as by [[Peterson]], called a tankard.

'''Dottle''':  The leftover plug of unburnt tobacco and ash left in the heel of a pipe bowl after smoking.  Dottle is avoided by smokers as a waste of tobacco and occasionally souring of the bowl, but is sometimes unavoidable.

'''Egg''':  According to the [[Egg|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the egg is usually but not always a bent pipe with a bowl shaped like an egg, which can be thought of as an elongated apple shape.

'''English''':  Aside from the obvious geographical uses, the word "English" is often used among pipe smokers to refer to blends with latakia in them.  In reality, however, the term only developed to differentiate blends made in the United Kingdom, especially in the days of the now defunct Tobacco Purity Laws, which prohibited humectants and most flavorings from being added to the tobacco.  A more precise term is "latakia based".

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'''Fire Cured''':  Unlike flue cured tobacco, which is cured by indirect heat without smoke, fire cured tobacco is cured with smoke, in the tobacco equivalent of barbecuing.  Dark Fired Kentucky and Latakia are both fire cured, and the process results in lower sugars and higher nicotine in the leaf.

'''Gourd Calabash''':  According to the [[Gourd Calabash|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], a gourd calabash is a pipe made from a calabash gourd which is dried and the seeds removed, and then fitted with a stem and meerschaum bowl cap.  The driest and smoothest of all pipes.

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'''Horn''':  According to the [[Horn|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the horn is a graceful freehand shape varying from a straight tapering tube to a more standard bent pipe, but in all cases with a smooth tapering from bowl to shank and no abrupt transitions.

'''Hungarian''':  More commonly referred to as an Oom Paul, the Hungarian is a fully bent billiard named for former South African President Paulus Kruger, according to the [[Oom Paul/Hungarian|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].

'''Kabakolak''':  A family of Turkish tobacco strains similar to Basibali, but with wings on their leaf stems in addition to distinct stems.

'''Katerini''':  A Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type, with a milder, sweeter leaf.  Grown southwest of Thessaloniki in the Greek province of Macedonia.

'''Mellowing''':  Particularly used in referring to Latakia's tendency to be less overpowering after some aging, the term is sometimes used to refer to a general tendency of tobacco to become more smooth with age.

'''Mortise''':  A mortise is at its most basic a hole cut or drilled to accept a smaller tenon and make a joint.  The joint has been used in woodworking for thousands of years, and in pipe construction generally appears as a hole drilled larger than the airway and at the same depth as the stem tenon.  Variations, however, are unlimited.

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'''Nail''':  The simplest form of pipe tool is the venerable Pipe Nail, which generally looks much like its namesake, one end flat to tamp with and another coming to a point or spoon for clearing ash and tar.

'''Pipe''':  A tube with a small bowl at one end used for the smoking of tobacco.

'''P-Lip''':  A type of pipe mouthpiece invented by Peterson of Dublin and relying on a small hole on the top of a stem rather than a hole at its end.  Meant to reduce tongue bite by directing the flow of smoke away from the tongue.

'''Prince''':  According to the [[Prince|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]], the prince is a pipe shape characterized by a squat rounded bowl and along, usually slightly bent stem with a short shank.  The pipe was named after Prince Albert, later King Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.

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== R ==

'''Reaming''': Trimming back cake from the bowl of a tobacco pipe.

'''Rhodesian''':  A subject of great dispute.  Unlikely to have been named for Cecil Rhodes, and more likely to have taken its name from Rhodesian tobacco, a Rhodesian is considered by some to be any bent bulldog, by others to be any bulldog with a round shank, and by others any bulldog shape with a greater bowl width than height.  For each accepted definition of the word there is a pipe sold which contradicts it, and no consensus is likely.

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'''Sokhoum''':  A type of Turkish varietal of the Samsun basibali type which is deeply fermented.  Grown in the mountains above the town of Sokhoum Kale (Sokhumi) in the Republic of Georgia.

'''Spur''':  A small protrusion at the bottom of traditional clay pipes to ensure a hot bowl does not burn the table.  Frequently included in cutty pipes made even in briar and meerschaum in later decades as an ornamental element of the cutty shape.  Seen only occasionally today.

[[File:Spur.jpg|thumb|center|100px|Clay Pipe Resting on Spur]]

'''Stummel''':  German for stump, the stummel is a complete pipe minus only a stem and any final adornments, including the bowl, shank, and transition between the two.

'''Ukulele''':  A pipe shape first designed by [[Sixten Ivarsson]] for the [[Pibe-Dan]] shop in the 1950s and named ukulele, some credit Ed [[Burak]] for the design which he considered a bulldog.  A ukulele is characterized by a domed, wide bowl and a wide oval shank with a flat bowl bottom, according to the [[Ukulele|A.S.P. Pipe Parts Charts by Bill Burney]].

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