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Fife

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

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noun

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

verb

1
To play this instrument.

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fivenoun	The digit/figure 5.
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cooksonnoun	A surname.
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fiddlenoun	A violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin, shoulder, chest or on the upper thigh and played with a bow (see also usage notes below).
piccolonoun	(music) A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.
pifferonoun	(music) A form of oboe.
slide whistlenoun	A wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorder's and a tube with a piston in it, the pitch being varied with a slide, commonly used as a sound effect to accompany pratfalls in slapstick.
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fiddlernoun	One who plays the fiddle.
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