Definition of "quail-pipe" []

• Of or relating to a quail pipe. (adjective)
• A woman's tongue (noun)
• Alternative spelling of quail pipe. (noun)

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• "Varney, you can sound the quail-pipe most daintily to wile wantons into his nets."
• "In warm weather the quail visits our island, but nearly all those sold in London are brought from France, where they are caught in hundreds by means of a quail-pipe as it is called."
• "A dish of wild fowl that came afterwards furnished conversation for the rest of the dinner, which concluded with a late invention of Will's for improving the quail-pipe."