piping

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of pipe

plural pipings

1. countableuncountableThe process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
2. countableuncountableThe 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] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 169

3. countableuncountableAn act of making music or noise with pipes.
4. countableuncountableA system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.

   the piping of a house

5. countableuncountablebusinessAn ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
6. countableuncountablecookingIcing extruded from a piping bag.
7. countableuncountablebiologyA piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
8. countableuncountablebiologypropagation by cuttings

1. not comparableHigh-pitched.

   His piping voice could be heard above the hubbub.

   1 more example

   The princess had made occasional wartime radio broadcasts, her piping, stilted voice, speaking in cut-glass tones to the children of the empire, but it was at the time of her 21st birthday in 1947 that she made perhaps the most significant radio address of her career, at the end of a royal tour of South Africa, laying out the guidelines that would govern her throughout her reign:

   September 8 2022, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian