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Flageolet

A small wooden pipe, having six or more holes, and a mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder.

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Recorder 76% connected

One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.

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Haricot 92% connected

A ragout or stew of meat with beans and other vegetables.

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Auletic adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a pipe (flute) or piper.

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Broach noun · 78% connection

A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes…

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Bushing noun · 78% connection

The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, pipe, holes, mouthpiece.
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Chanter noun · 78% connection

The flute or finger pipe in a bagpipe. See Bagpipe.

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Chibouk noun · 78% connection

A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl o…

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Embouchure noun · 78% connection

The shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, wooden, pipe, holes, mouthpiece.
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Fife noun · 78% connection

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

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Flute verb · 78% connection

A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys whi…

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Flute a bec unknown · 78% connection

A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.

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Hornpipe noun · 78% connection

An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. It was so called because the b…

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Hypogynous adjective · 78% connection

Inserted below the pistil or pistils; -- said of sepals, petals, and stamens; having the sepals, petals, and stamens inserted below th…

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Insert noun · 78% connection

an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted

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Inset noun · 78% connection

One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding; as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books whic…

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Intercalary adjective · 78% connection

Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; as, an intercalary month, day, etc.; -- now applied particularly to the odd day (…

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Interleaf noun · 78% connection

A leaf inserted between other leaves; a blank leaf inserted, as in a book.

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Mouthpiece noun · 78% connection

The part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pi…

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Overblow verb · 78% connection

To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a f…

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Pencil noun · 78% connection

A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod inten…

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