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Webster 1913 Edition
Bagpipe
Bag′pipe
,Noun.
A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.
☞ 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
,Verb.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bagpipe
BAG'PIPE
, N.[bag and pipe.]A musical wind instrument, used chiefly in Scotland and Ireland. It consists of a leathern bag, which receives the air by a tube, which is stopped by a valve; and pipes, into which the air is pressed by the performer. The base-pipe is called the drone, and the tenor or treble is called the chanter. The pipes have eight holes like those of a flute, which the performer stops and opens at pleasure. There are several species of bag-pipes, as the soft and melodious Irish bag-pipe, with two short drones and a long one; the Highland bag-pipe, with two short drones, the music of which is very loud; the Scot's Lowland bag-pipe, which is played with a bellows and is also a loud instrument. There is also a small pipe, with a chanter about eight inches in length.
In seamanship, to bag-pipe the mizen, is to lay it aback by
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bringing the sheet to the mizen shrouds.
Definition 2024
bagpipe
bagpipe
English
Noun
bagpipe (plural bagpipes)
Translations
bagpipes — see 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.
Translations
to play bagpipes
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