a more or less generic name for a whistle, pipe or flageolet; in the scores of Reiser's ' Croesus' (1710), and ' Jodelet ' (1726), the instrument is used, and seems to have been gome kind of shrill oboe. In Grassineau's dictionary (1740) it is given as the name of a small flute or flageolet, used for teaching birds to whistle. M.