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Like a piper – or four-and-twenty blackbirds? (4)

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pied

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'like' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for pied that I've seen before include "Foot over water [in]" , "black and white" , "varying in colour" , "With patches coloured differently" , "Piper thus portrayed once" .)

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