- A small type of flute - High-pitched flute - Miniature flute - Small flute - Small woodwind instrument - Told to pick a low instrument - A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave
higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute.
- Shrill flute - Small flute - Woodwind instrument - A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used
chiefly to accompany the drum in military music. - To play on a fife.
- To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to
shift, turn, or veer about. - To change from one opinion or course to another; to use
evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle. - To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to
scatter. - To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle. - A fife or small flute.
- 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of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorder.