pipings

Noun

piping (countable and uncountable, plural pipings)

1. The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
2. The sound of musical pipes.
   • The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh]...
3. An act of making music or noise with pipes.
4. A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
   • the piping of a house
5. An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
6. Icing extruded from a piping bag.

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