(slang) a doubly sure or doubly easy thing.
Lead pipe refers to a midwestern and western US
form of galvanized
iron pipe (which looks as if it were
lead). For saddling and cinching (fixing a saddle securely) the sort of horse that expands its belly, a
short length of this so-called
lead pipe was slipped under the saddle strap and turned like a tourniquet, the
work assisted by a few knee jabs in the belly. Thus the horse was forced to deflate and the saddle was cinched tight, that horse now being double (
lead-
pipe) cinched.
—SHSBC Binder 11 Approved Glossary, —9th ACC Volume 2 Approved Glossary, —9th ACC Volume 3 Approved Glossary, —PDC 2 Approved Glossary, —PDC Volume 3 Approved Glossary, —PDC Volume 6 Approved Glossary, —HEV Approved Glossary, —Perception of Truth Approved Glossary (9 June 92), —SHSBC Binder 10 Approved Glossary, —SHSBC Binder 8 Approved Glossary, —SHSBC Binder 7 Approved Glossary, —SHSBC Binder 20 Approved Glossary, —SHSBC Binder 22 Approved Glossary, —SHSBC Binder 25 Approved Glossary, —Freedom Congress Glossary (approved 5-9-90)