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
18 January 2025
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
