Bagpipes

[bag-pahyp]

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noun

Often, bagpipes. a reed instrument consisting of a melody pipe and one or more accompanying drone pipes protruding from a windbag into which the air is blown by the mouth or a bellows.

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verb (used with object)

Nautical. to back (a fore-and-aft sail) by hauling the sheet to windward.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English baggepipe. See bag, pipe¹

Related forms

bag·pip·er, noun

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bagpipes (ˈbæɡˌpaɪps)

—*pl n*
	any of a family of musical wind instruments in which sounds are produced in reed pipes supplied with air from a bag inflated either by the player's mouth, as in the Irish bagpipes or Highland bagpipes of Scotland, or by arm-operated bellows, as in the Northumbrian bagpipes

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