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Tin whistle   /tɪn wˈɪsəl/   Listen
Tin whistle

noun
1.
An inexpensive fipple flute.  Synonyms: pennywhistle, whistle.





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"Tin whistle" Quotes from Famous Books



... cat went over to the strawberry bed and lay down on some straw. Then the farmer's wife came into the garden, and there was a little boy with her. He was her sister's boy, and he was going to spend the summer at the farmer's home. The boy had a tin whistle, and once in a while he would blow upon it. The farmer's wife was thinking to herself, "After he goes to bed to-night, I am going to hide that whistle where he can't find it!" But she did not say a word to the little ...
— Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin • Ben Field
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... highest and purest and truest within our comprehension. But this fashionable, open-mouthed delirium is no more a worship of music than star-gazing is serious astronomy. These hypocrites are sailing under false colours. I noticed, when I once suggested at a dinner-table the cultivation of the tin whistle, amusement among the men, and titters among the women. When I asked why old Pan's instrument should be so bespattered with ridicule, they were instantly serious, as is their habit when you mention any one ...
— An Ocean Tramp • William McFee
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Words linked to "Tin whistle" :   vertical flute, recorder, whistle, fipple pipe, fipple flute


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