In many technical applications. A thin elastic vibratory strip of metal, covering the aperture of a reed in an organ pipe: = reed, n.1 9c; hence trans…

An aperture in the side of a musical pipe, having a sharp edge against which air is blown to produce a sound.

In scientific and technical uses. Organ-building. (See quot. 1876.)

Music. A piece of reed or another material forming part of a musical instrument, which produces a sound… In the reed pipe of an organ: a small…

The lip of an organ pipe, against which the wind strikes so as to make it sound (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).

In a recorder or other duct flute: the lip at the base of the mouth (mouth, n. 14b) against which the airstream strikes to produce a sound. Also…

technically in mechanical arts. in Organ-building.

Music. A plate or rod fixed below the mouth of a flue pipe in an organ, which helps direct the wind onto the edge of the upper lip.

In an organ pipe: (see quots.).

transferred. In an organ (see quot. 1852).

the main tube forming the body of an organ pipe or wind instrument.

a narrow aperture in the mouth of an organ pipe angled to direct the flow of air over the lip.

(a) a ventilating passage in a mine, an air-way; (b) the narrow slit in an organ pipe through which the wind strikes upon the lip so as to make the…