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ALL meanings of bagpipe

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  • noun bagpipe of or relating to the bagpipes 3
  • noun bagpipe a shrill-toned musical instrument with one double-reed pipe operated by finger stops and one or more drone pipes, all of them sounded by air forced with the arm from a leather bag, which is kept filled by the breath: now played chiefly in Scotland 3
  • noun bagpipe A musical instrument with reed pipes that are sounded by the pressure of wind emitted from a bag squeezed by the player's arm . Bagpipes are associated especially with Scotland, but are also used in folk music in Ireland, Northumberland, and France. 1
  • noun bagpipe 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. 1
  • verb with object bagpipe Nautical. to back (a fore-and-aft sail) by hauling the sheet to windward. 1
  • noun plural bagpipe traditional wind instrument 1
  • noun bagpipe Singular of bagpipes (normally used in plural). 0
  • noun bagpipe attributive form of bagpipe. 0
  • verb bagpipe To play the bagpipes. 0
  • verb bagpipe (nautical) To lay (the mizzen) aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging. 0
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