Caruck

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Piping \Pip"ing\ (p[imac]p"[i^]ng), a. [From {Pipe}, v.]
     1. Playing on a musical pipe. "Lowing herds and piping
        swains." --Swift.
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     2. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of


        the pipe rather than of the drum and fife. --Shak.
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     3. Emitting a high, shrill sound.
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     4. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound
        of boiling fluids.
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     {Piping crow}, {Piping crow shrike}, {Piping roller} (Zool.),
        any Australian bird of the genus {Gymnorhina}, esp.
        {Gymnorhina tibicen}, which is black and white, and the
        size of a small crow. Called also {caruck}.
  
     {Piping frog} (Zool.), a small American tree frog ({Hyla
        Pickeringii}) which utters a high, shrill note in early
        spring.
  
     {Piping hot}, boiling hot; hissing hot; very hot. [Colloq.]
        --Milton.
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