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Hookah

the water tobacco-pipe of Arabs, Turks, Persians, Hindus, and HOOKAH, the water tobacco-pipe of other Orientals. It consists of a bowl for the tobacco, a water-bottle, and a long flexible tube ending in the mouthpiece.

A wooden tube leads from the bottom of flexible tube ending in the mouthpiece. the head or bowl down into the water in the bottle, and the flexible tube is continued downward by a stiff tube into the space above the water in the bottle. lar but simpler water-pipe, made of a cocoanut filled with water, and two short wooden tubes at right angles, one going into the water, the other merely passing inside the top of the shell.

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