pipe
Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
Other meanings
A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
A kind of
- wind instrument
Kinds of pipe
- chanter
- drone
- recorder
- pitch pipe
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "pipe" (pīpe).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pipe” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.