fife vs piping

fife

noun
  • A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music 

num
  • Used instead of five in radio communications to avoid confusion with fire. 

verb
  • To play this instrument. 

piping

noun
  • The sound of musical pipes. 

  • An act of making music or noise with pipes. 

  • A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework. 

  • The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching. 

  • An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth. 

  • Icing extruded from a piping bag. 

  • propagation by cuttings 

  • A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting. 

adj
  • High-pitched. 

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