Fipple

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A whistlelike mouthpiece for certain wind instruments, such as a recorder or flageolet, that channels the breath toward the sounding edge of a side opening.
  • n. An object similar to a fipple in an organ pipe.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The block (typically of wood) that forms the floor of the windway in a wind instrument.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The under lip.
  • n. A stopper, as at the mouth of a musical wind-instrument.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    stopper    plug    stopple   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Whipple    cripple    nipple    ripple    sipple    tipple    triple    tripple