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Traditional English :: fife
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fifer.html - n. & v. --n. 1 a kind of small shrill flute used with the drum in military music.
2 its player. --v. 1 intr. play the fife.
2 tr. play (an air etc.) on the fife. fifer n. [G Pfeife PIPE, or F fifre f. Swiss G Pfifre piper] |
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Traditional English :: fife-rail
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fifer.html - n.
Naut. a rail round the mainmast with belaying-pins. [18th c.: orig. unkn.] |
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English Idioms :: fifth
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fifer.html - See: TAKE THE FIFTH. |
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English Idioms :: fifth column
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fifer.html - {n. phr.} A group or organization within a country that works to bring about the country's downfall, usually through acts of espionage and sabotage. * /The Communist party in the United States was considered by Senator McCarthy to be the Soviet Union's fifth column./ |
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English Idioms :: fifty-fifty(2)
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fifer.html - {adj.}, {informal} 1. Divided or shared equally. * /It will be a fifty-fifty arrangement; half the money for me and half for you./ 2. Half for and half against; half good and half bad. * /There is only a fifty-fifty chance that we will win the game./ Compare: HALF AND HALF. |
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Traditional English :: FIFA
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fifer.html - abbr.
International Football Federation. [F F÷d÷ration Internationale de Football Association] |
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