Etymology

piper

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Today it means: A musician who plays a pipe. Full definition →

Middle English piper
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  1. Middle English · inherited frompiper
  2. English todaypiper

From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe + -er. Piecewise doublet of fifer.

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