bagpipe
(noun) a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bagpipe (plural bagpipes)
singular of bagpipes. (normally used in plural)
attributive form of bagpipes
bagpipe (third-person singular simple present bagpipes, present participle bagpiping, simple past and past participle bagpiped)
To play the bagpipes.
(nautical) To lay (the mizzen) aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging.
(slang) To masturbate a person's penis in one's armpit.
Source: Wiktionary
Bag"pipe, n.
Definition: A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.
Note: It consists of a leather bag, which receives the air by a tube that is stopped by a valve; and three sounding pipes, into which the air is pressed by the performer. Two of these pipes produce fixed tones, namely, the bass, or key tone, and its fifth, and form together what is called the drone; the third, or chanter, gives the melody.
Bag"pipe, v. t.
Definition: To make to look like a bagpipe. To bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging. Totten.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
