Well, I am paraphrasing from a few other threads where we have discussed this. And, as I’ve said, I’m relying on memory (an old dilapidated one) from too many years of participating in threads of all sorts.
Conjecture is really all we have, unless someone will research 100+ year old literature on pipemaking. But, I do know, whatever the circumstances that the Dublin was name was associated with the Irish, which is obvious. Whether all of Great Britain for over 100 years was all equality and acceptance, well... I’ll leave that to you guys.
Someone did post, if memory serves a bit of etymology on the word, billiard, associating that with a crudgal. Thus, the root of the game with the same namesake of striking balls with a stick.
I do remember that a Canadian was from associating the country known for lumberjacks, with the huge piece of wood that shape was made from, because it’s like a log.
Lovats, Liverpool’s, etc... interests me. I’m not sure if anyone has pinned down origins for those names or not.
Skates, have a protrusion at the heel like an ice skate.
Pickax, well, they look like them.
The forms of a Dublins are interesting to me as well. Yachts, Zulu, Scoops, horns, Woodstock’s, etc... I’m not sure. Well, except the horn. It looks like one.
The author, to me seems like they must have been made popular by writers, probably from being great for setting down to write, and then picking up for reflection.
Toppers, stacks, and stovepipes, well... a topper was slang for the stovetop hats worn back in the day.
A cutty was modeled after the clay pipes, probably made for seamen aboard ships, some of them cuttys, just guessing on the ship name.
Pokers, well, they look like someone “poked” a stem in a barrel.
Someone recently posted some research on cherrywoods, being modeled after the old Frech working man’s pipe that Ropp made famous, carved from cherrywood.
I’ll bet that some famous prince made the shape of the same name famous.
Chruchwardens, well... I’ve read several different explanations as to why churchwardens made that name their own.
I am drawing blanks on more name, but maybe that is enough to help start the debate.