Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A call or pipe for alluring quail into a net.
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- adjective Of or relating to a
quail pipe . - noun slang, obsolete A
woman 'stongue - noun Alternative spelling of
quail pipe .
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Examples
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Varney, you can sound the quail-pipe most daintily to wile wantons into his nets.
Kenilworth 2004
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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.
Mamma's Stories about Birds Mary Elizabeth Southwell Dudley Leathley 1858
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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.
Days with Sir Roger De Coverley Joseph Addison 1695
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"Thrush or nightingale, all is one to the fowler; and, Master Varney, you can sound the quail-pipe most daintily to wile wantons into his nets.
Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801
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