fife

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Fife (musical instrument)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪf/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪf

From German Pfeife (“whistle, smoking pipe”). Doublet of pipe.

fife (plural fifes)

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

fife (third-person singular simple present fifes, present participle fifing, simple past and past participle fifed)

1. To play this instrument.

fife

1. Used instead of five in radio communications, especially NATO and ICAO, to avoid confusion with fire.
   • 1963, Arthur C Clarke, chapter 6, in Glidepath, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 66:

     “Change course to two fife zero and reduce height to fifteen hundred feet.” That “fife,” thought Alan, sounded very affected; but it had a good survival value in a noisy background.

• niner

• fief

From English fife.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfife/,
• Rhymes: -ife
• Hyphenation^(key): fi‧fe

fife

1. (music) fife

• fife-huilu
• sveitsinhuilu

fife f

1. plural of fifa