The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
bagpiped
simple past tense and past participle of bagpipe
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
8 January 2025
(noun) Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.