pipare

1 pipare, ~iare, ~ire [CL, onomatopoeic] 1 to emit a high-pitched sound, make a peeping, squeaking, or screeching noise: a (w. ref. to bird, also transf. to human); b (w. ref. to bird of prey); c (w. ref. to mouse). a pulli et pueri ~ant Aldh. PR 131 p. 180; limpida praepetibus sic complens aera catervis, / garrula quae rostris resonantes cantica pipant Id. VirgV 15; cum ‥ matutini volucres avino forcipe pipant [vv. ll. pippant, ripant] Felix Guthl. 19; chykkyn, as hennys, byrdys, ~io, -as, -avi, - are PP; to pipe as a byrde, ~iare CathA.  b accipitres ~ant vel plipiant Aldh. PR 131 p. 179; accipiter ‥ et nisus masculi ‥ carnes afferunt suis comparibus, ~ando adventum suum protestantes Neckam NR I 29; ~iare, to cryen as a ffawkon (Medulla) CathA 81n; to cry ‥ accipitrum [est] ~iare ‥ milvorum [est] ~ire CathA.  c catus transiens audivit murem ~antem O. Cheriton Fab. 56 (= J. Sheppey Fab. 23); to cry ‥ murium [est] ~are vel pipitare CathA. 2 (mus.) to play the pipe or (bag)pipes. 1288 cuidam garcioni cum una bagepipa ~anti coram rege AcWardr (TR Bk 201) p. 56.

2 pipare [cf. ML pipa+-are] 1 (w. ref. to traces of horse harness) to pipe, provide with pipes (cf. pipa 1c). 1390 in nigro coreo empto pro tractibus ~andis (MinAc Whitchurch) Ac. Man. Wint.; 1392 ad tractus pypandos (MinAc Chilbolton) Ib.. 2 to pack in a pipe (cf. pipa 3). b (p. ppl. as sb.) pipe-full, pipe (cf. pipa 4). 1440 officia ‥ paccacionis ‥ mercandisarum ‥ doliatarum, ~atarum, barellatarum, seu aliqualiter inclusarum Pat 448 m. 14; 1449 omnium aliarum mercandisarum quarumcumque in portu South’ paccatarum, doliatarum, ~atarum, barellatarum seu aliqualiter Cl 299 m. 16d..  b 1444 pro iij doliatis ferri ‥ j doliata de rosyn’ ‥ iij ~atis de rosyn (KR AcCust 140/62) EEC 635.