pipestem

[ pahyp-stem ]

/ ˈpaɪpˌstɛm /

the stem of a tobacco pipe.

something resembling this in slenderness, as an unusually thin arm or leg.

Origin of pipestem

An Americanism dating back to 1720–30; pipe¹ + stem¹

This stem is made up of little flat rings looking like bits of a pipestem.

Diggers in the Earth |Eva March Tappan
The mouthpiece of the pipestem was gently presented to the lips and the breath drawn through.

Prairie Smoke (Second Edition, Revised) |Melvin Randolph Gilmore
Evidently he had not fenced at Heidelberg for nothing, if he did have pink cheeks and pipestem legs.

The Other Fellow |F. Hopkinson Smith
A bough of the falling tree alighted on his right leg, snapping it like a pipestem, and pinning him down in the snow.

The Lady of North Star |Ottwell J. Binns

The arm bone snapped like a pipestem, but it was the monster's dying effort.

B. C. 30,000 |Sterner St. Paul Meek