Bagpipe

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  • noun. A musical instrument having a flexible bag inflated either by a tube with valves or by bellows, a double-reed melody pipe, and from one to four drone pipes.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cause to resemble a bagpipe.
  • noun. A musical wind-instrument consisting of a leathern bag, which receives the air from the mouth, or from bellows, and of pipes, into which the air is pressed from the bag by the performer's elbow.
  • noun. undefined
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To make to look like a bagpipe.
  • transitive verb. to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging.
  • noun. A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Singular of bagpipes (normally used in plural)
  • noun. Attributive form of bagpipe
  • verb. To play the bagpipes.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone
  • Word Usage
    "Of course I admit that whether the bagpipe is a musical instrument or not is a matter of argument, for just what constitutes music my Irish friend, George Bernard Shaw, says is a point of view."
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