fife

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FIFE, noun [Latin pipio, to pip or peep, as a chicken. The word may have received its name from a hollow stalk, or from its sound.] A small pipe, used as a wind instrument, chiefly in martial music with drums. FIFE, verb transitive To play on a fife
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