yard of clay

English edit

yard of clay (plural yards of clay)

(slang, archaic) A long pipe for smoking; a churchwarden pipe.
- 1954, Denzil Batchelor, Big Fight: The Story of World Championship Boxing, page 44:
  […] he failed repeatedly until he took over his famous house in Haymarket, where for many years, surrounded by such admirers as Byron, Tom Moore and Hazlitt, he smoked his yard of clay, drained his glass of 'daffy', and […]