fife

Meanings

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

1. To play this instrument.

1. Used instead of five in radio communications, especially NATO and ICAO, to avoid confusion with fire or nine.

1. A traditional county of Scotland succeeded by Fife Region in 1975, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with landward boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire.
2. A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996.
3. A place in the United States:
4. An unincorporated community in McCulloch County, Texas, named after Fife in Scotland.
5. An unincorporated community in Goochland County, Virginia, named after the owner of the village site.
6. A city in Pierce County, Washington, possibly named after William J. Fife.
7. A surname.

Etymology

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

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