Bourdon

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  • noun. The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
  • noun. The bass string, as of a violin.
  • noun. An organ stop, commonly of the 16-foot pipes, medium in scale but with dark timbre.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In music: The drone of a bagpipe, or a monotonous and repetitious ground-melody. See burden.
  • noun. An organ-stop, usually of 16-feet tone, the pipes of which are generally made of wood, and produce hollow, smooth tones, deficient in harmonics and easily blended with other tones.
  • In music, to drone, as an instrument during a pause in singing.
  • noun. In the hurdy-gurdy, the lowest open string, usually tuned to the C below middle C or to the G below that.
  • noun. A staff used by pilgrims in the middle ages.
  • noun. A baton or cantoral staff.
  • noun. A plain thick silver wand used as a badge of office.
  • noun. A lance used in the just. See lance.
  • noun. In heraldry, a pilgrim's staff used as a bearing.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See burden (of a song.)
  • noun. A kind of organ stop.
  • noun. A pilgrim's staff.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The burden or bass of a melody.
  • noun. The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
  • noun. The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.
  • noun. The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.
  • noun. A large, low-pitched bell not part of a diatonically tuned ring of bells.
  • noun. A bumblebee.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
  • Word Usage
    ""In regard to the word bourdon, why it has been applied to a pilgrim's staff, it is not easy to guess."
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