shepherd's pipe

1. 1.

   a small bagpipe formerly popular in France

   Synonymsmusette

   Broaderbagpipe
2. 2.

   a small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes

   Synonymsflageolettreble recorder

   Broaderfipple flute

   Narrowertabor pipe

Questions about shepherd's pipe

What does shepherd's pipe mean?

shepherd's pipe means "a small bagpipe formerly popular in France". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for shepherd's pipe?

Close synonyms include musette, flageolet, treble recorder. 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 shepherd's pipe a common word?

shepherd's 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.