• IPA^(key):/ˈpaɪpɪŋ/

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• Rhymes:-aɪpɪŋ

piping

1. presentparticiple andgerund ofpipe

piping (countable anduncountable,pluralpipings)

1. The process of an animal just beginning to break out of itsegg; precedeshatching.
2. The sound of musicalpipes.
   • a.1823 (date written),Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, inMary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor,Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London:[…][C. H. Reynell] forJohn and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published1824,→OCLC,page169:

     The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweetpipings.

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

   thepiping of a house

5. (sewing) Anornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
6. (cooking)Icingextruded from apiping bag.
7. (botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; acutting.
8. (botany)propagation bycuttings

piping (notcomparable)

1. High-pitched.

   Hispiping voice could be heard above the hubbub.

   • September 8 2022, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, inThe Guardian‎^[1]:

     The princess had made occasional wartime radio broadcasts, herpiping, 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:

• hot piping
• piping hot
• pipingly

• Wikipedia article on bagpipes