Pipe'-lāy'ing, n.
n. 1. The laying down of pipes, as for gas, water, &c. Simmonds.
Sense 2. Political trickery; under-handed means for obtaining votes or political influence. [U. S.]
The term arose from an incident which occurred in New York city some years ago. A false accusation was brought against the whig party, to the effect that negotiations had been entered into by them, with certain persons in Philadelphia, for the transportation of a great number of voters from that city to New York, these voters, as was alleged, being covertly spoken of, in the correspondence upon the subject, as so many yards of pipe, the work of laying the pipes of the Croton aqueduct being then in progress. J. Inman. Bartlett.