fife

noun1

1. •
   A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music

number1

1. •
   Used instead of five in radio communications, especially NATO and ICAO, to avoid confusion with fire or nine.

   • “Change course to two fife zero and reduce height to fifteen hundred feet.” That “fife,” thought Alan, sounded very affected; but it had a good survival value in a noisy background. — 1963

verb1

1. •
   To play this instrument.

noun2

1. •
   A traditional county of Scotland succeeded by Fife Region in 1975, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with landward boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire.

   • Ross: Will you to Scone? Macduff: No, cousin, I'll to Fife. — 1606
2. •
   A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996.