piper

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pip=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

piper, n. [L.].

 See Pepper.  [1913 Webster]

piper, n. 

•  One who plays on a pipe, or the like, esp. on a bagpipe.  Macaulay.  [1913 Webster]
•  A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.  [1913 Webster]

To pay the piper, to bear the cost, expense, or trouble.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

piper, n.
1 a bagpipe-player.
2 a person who plays a pipe, esp. an itinerant musician.

Etymology

OE pipere (as PIPE)

ROGET THESAURUS

piper

Musician

N musician, artiste, performer, player, minstrel, bard, accompanist, accordionist, instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist, harper, fiddler, fifer, trumpeter, piper, drummer, catgut scraper, band, orchestral waits, vocalist, melodist, singer, warbler, songster, chaunter, chauntress, songstress, cantatrice, choir, quire, chorister, chorus, chorus singer, liedertafel, nightingale, philomel, thrush, siren, bulbul, mavis, Pierides, sacred nine, Orpheus, Apollo, the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore, tuneful nine, tuneful quire, composer, performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization, playing, musical, adagio, andante.