subs. phr. (old).—1.  A woman’s tongue.—B. E. (c. 1696); GROSE (1785). Also (2) the throat.

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  1692.  DRYDEN, Juvenal, Satire 6. And stretch his QUAIL-PIPE till they crack his voice.

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  1714.  POPE, The Wife of Bath, 213.

        To clear my QUAIL-PIPE, and refresh my soul,
Full oft I drain’d the spicy nut-brown bowl.

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