- a wooden plug forming a flue in the end of a pipe, as the mouthpiece of a recorder
- a similar device in an organ pipe with a flutelike tone
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fip•ple
(fip′əl),USA pronunciation n. [Music.]
- Music and Dancea plug stopping the upper end of a pipe, as a recorder or a whistle, and having a narrow slit through which the player blows.
- 1620–30; perh. special use of dialect, dialectal fipple loose lower lip, pouting lip; compare Old Norse flipi lower lip of a horse, Norwegian flipe flap, lappet. See flip1, flap, flabby
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fipple /ˈfɪpəl/ n
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