fipple

American  

[fip-uhl] / ˈfɪp əl /

noun

Music.

1. a plug stopping the upper end of a pipe, as a recorder or a whistle, and having a narrow slit through which the player blows.

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fipple British  

/ ˈfɪpəl /

noun

1. a wooden plug forming a flue in the end of a pipe, as the mouthpiece of a recorder

2. a similar device in an organ pipe with a flutelike tone

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Etymology

Origin of fipple

1620–30; perhaps special use of dial. fipple loose lower lip, pouting lip; compare Old Norse flipi lower lip of a horse, Norwegian flipe flap, lappet. See flip ¹, flap, flabby

Example Sentences

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fipple

Milton and Pepys praised the pennywhistle notes of the fipple.

From Time Magazine Archive

Musicians sat in the corner: a jar-drum, a tambourine, trumpets, and a fipple flute.

From Travel Tales in the Promised Land (Palestine) by May, Karl Friedrich