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bagpipe
[ bag-pahyp ]
noun
- Often bagpipes. a reed instrument consisting of a melody pipe and one or more accompanying drone pipes protruding from a windbag into which the air is blown by the mouth or a bellows.
verb (used with object)
, bag·piped, bag·pip·ing.
- Nautical. to back (a fore-and-aft sail) by hauling the sheet to windward.
bagpipe
/ ˈbæɡˌpaɪp /
noun
- modifier of or relating to the bagpipes
a bagpipe maker
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Example Sentences
A window was open, through which his bagpipe might have been seen hanging to a nail upon the wall.
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The camp-fire still blazed; near it a bagpipe crooned; now and again a horse shook in its harness.
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He played extremely well on the Northumberland bagpipe, and his neighbour was a good performer on the flageolet.
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The wild wail of a bagpipe smote the air and the four boon companions rushed to the window.
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In one instance, the head of Luther is represented as the Devil's Bagpipe; he blows into his ear, and uses his nose as a chanter.
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