Meaning of Piping | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
   countable, uncountable
2. The sound of musical pipes.
   countable, uncountable
3. An act of making music or noise with pipes.
   countable, uncountable
4. A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
   countable, uncountable
5. An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
   countable, uncountable
6. Icing extruded from a piping bag.
   countable, uncountable
7. A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
   countable, uncountable
8. propagation by cuttings
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.”

“the piping of a house”

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