shepherd's 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.