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Webster 1913 Edition

(fẽr)

Noun.

[perh. fr. L.

fibula

a clasp, a pin; cf. Prov. E.

fible

a stick used to stir pottage.]

A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music.

[Obs.]

Bacon.

Noun.

[L. fibula.] A stopper. [Not in use.]

fipple ‎(plural fipples)

(music) The block (typically of wood) that forms the floor of the windway in a wind instrument.