Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fipple"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Fipple \Fip"ple\ (f[~e]r), n. [perh. fr. L. fibula a clasp, a
pin; cf. Prov. E. fible a stick used to stir pottage.]
A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music. [Obs.] --Bacon.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

fipple
n : a wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a
recorder)


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