melody pipe

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   reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played

   Synonymschanter

   Broaderpipe

   Part ofbagpipe

Questions about melody pipe

What does melody pipe mean?

melody pipe means "reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played".

What is another word for melody pipe?

Close synonyms include chanter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is melody pipe a common word?

melody pipe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.