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Bagpipe : (noun)
1: a wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and
squeezes it out through pipes [syn: pipes]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Bagpipe : \Bag"pipe\, n.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Bagpipe : \Bag"pipe\, v. t.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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