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# tweedle

«tweedle» in Mova's school dictionary: **To play a tune lightly on a pipe or whistle, making a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (tweedles, tweedled, tweedling); rare

### meaning for a pupil

To play a tune lightly on a pipe or whistle, making a trilling sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tweedle/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a bagpipe or pipe player in a rhyme

### examples

- By-and-by he saw a man playing the bagpipes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tweedle/#x1)
- He tweedled a little tune on his whistle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tweedle/#x2)
- The fiddler tweedled merrily all evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tweedle/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tweedle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tweedle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.