Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fife

1 sense of fife

Sense 1
fife -- (a small high-pitched flute similar to a piccolo; has a shrill tone and is used chiefly to accompany drums in a marching band)
       => flute, transverse flute -- (a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown)