Definitions for bagpipeˈbægˌpaɪp

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

bag•pipeˈbægˌpaɪp(n.)

  1. Often, bagpipes. a reed instrument consisting of a melody pipe and one or more accompanying drone pipes protruding from a bag into which air is blown by the mouth or a bellows.

    Category: Music and Dance

Origin of bagpipe:

1300–50

bag′pip`er(n.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. bagpipe(noun)

    a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone

Wiktionary

  1. bagpipe(Noun)

    Singular of bagpipes (normally used in plural)

  2. bagpipe(Verb)

    To play the bagpipes.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bagpipe(noun)

    a musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland

  2. Bagpipe(verb)

    to make to look like a bagpipe


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