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Definition of Fifes

Fife
Fife Fife, n. [F. fifre, OHG. pf[=i]fa, LL. pipa pipe, pipare to play on the pipe, fr. L. pipire, pipare, to peep, pip, chirp, as a chiken. See Pipe.] (Mus.) A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music. Fife major (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer who superintends the fifers of a regiment. Fife rail. (Naut.) (a) A rail about the mast, at the deck, to hold belaying pins, etc. (b) A railing around the break of a poop deck.
Fife
Fife Fife, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fifed; p. pr. & vb. n. fifing.] To play on a fife.

Meaning of Fifes from wikipedia

- Fifes are made primarily of wood, such as blackwood, grenadilla, rosewood, mopane, pink ivory, cocobolo, boxwood, maple, or persimmon. Some fifes are...
- Fife (/faɪf/ FYFE, Scottish English: [fɐi̯f]; Scottish Gaelic: Fìobha [ˈfiːvə]; Scots: Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and...
- 11-hole fifes are chromatic, thus able to play any note as opposed to the more limited ancient fifes, which could only be pla**** in a few keys. The fife originated...
- Fifes Peaks is a compact group of summits and spires from an eroded volcanic cone located in Yakima County in Washington state. Fifes Peaks is situated...
- Hartman referred them to the Fifes Peak Formation. The Sun Top tuff (or Sun Top unit), an informal member of the Fifes Peak Formation. The Sun Top unit...
- Fifers are military personnel whose specialism is playing the fife. The occupation emerged during the early modern era, when contemporary military tactics...
- The Fifer or Young Flautist is a painting by French painter Édouard Manet, made in 1866. It is usually kept in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. On a trip to...
- The Fifes donated their collection of folklore research to USU’s Merrill-Cazier Library in 1966, a collection that would latter be renamed to Fife Folklore...
- to the piccolo Fife, Texas, U.S. Fife, Virginia, U.S. Fife, Washington Fife Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada Fife Lake, Michigan, U.S. Fife Street, A street...
- charge. Chilean Army: Snare drums, fifes, and bugles (led by a drum major and a bugle major) Chilean Navy: Snare drums, fifes, and bugles (led by a drum major)...