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Pennywhistle
Pennywhistle meaning
A six-holed flute-like instrument with a fipple. They have approximately a two octave range (sometimes a little higher). Stereotypically, they are made out of tin, but in reality they come in all sorts of varieties, including tin, brass, nickel, cane, polymer, etc.
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Example sentences (3)
My grandfather had a fierceness that I lack, and anyway, I don't have a pennywhistle.
It features a bunch of different instruments, including what he tells me is his first ever recorded pennywhistle solo.
The words "tin whistle" and "pennywhistle" in any compound form do not generally appear in early-20th-century dictionaries, encyclopedias, or thesauri.