FIPPLE

fipple

(noun) a wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

fipple (plural fipples)

(music) The mouthpiece of a ducted flute, or the plug forming the floor of the windway.

Source: Wiktionary


Fip"ple (fer), n. Etym: [perh. fr. L. fibula a clasp, a pin; cf. Prov. E. fible a stick used to stir pottage.]

Definition: A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music. [Obs.] Bacon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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