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hookah
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hookah, hooka
an oriental pipe for smoking marijuana, tobacco, etc., consisting of one or more long flexible stems connected to a container of water or other liquid through which smoke is drawn and cooled

hookah [′hü·kə]
(engineering)
An air supply device used in free diving, comprising a demand regulator worn by the diver and a hose extending to a compressed air supply at the surface.


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Rich and poor alike smoked the water pipe (huqqa), but the bulbous water storage of the villager''s huqqa might be brass, while in a palace it was beaten gold or inlaid nephrite jade.
Clive of India Museum A bejewelled silver huqqa opium pipe and a steel elephant goad are among new items loaned to Powis Castle's fascinating Clive of India Museum by the family, adding to its present collection of around 300 incredible Indian artefacts.
 
 
 
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