piper

/หˆpaษช.pษ™/

IPA: /P AY1 P ER0/

noun
  1. 1

    A musician who plays a pipe.

  2. 2

    A bagpiper.

  3. 3

    A baby pigeon.

  4. 4

    A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.

  5. 5

    A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.

noun
  1. 1

    A plant of the family Piperaceae.

  2. 2

    A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.

  3. 3

    A bell pepper, a fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.

  4. 4

    A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again

    โ€œSome ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".โ€

  5. 5

    A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/piper