BAGPIPE

bagpipe

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

bagpipe (plural bagpipes)

singular of bagpipes. (normally used in plural)

attributive form of bagpipes

Verb

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



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