n. Specifically, a thin steel pipe or tube used to line the bore of a deep well for water, gas, or air to prevent the bore from getting out of line or caving in, and to keep water and other foreign matter from getting into the well from the sides of the hole. It is thinner in gage than boiler-tube or pipe.n. The act of making tubes, or providing with tubes.n. A tube or tubes collectively: as, ten feet of tubing.