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noun
1.
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.
verb (used with object)
2.
Nautical. to back (a fore-and-aft sail) by hauling the sheet to windward.
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| (modifier) of or relating to the bagpipes: a bagpipe maker | |
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Example sentences
Multiple courses are interspersed with bagpipe music and poetry readings.
But on this anniversary, it had been the strains of the bagpipe, which had brought the crowd together.
This article is on the bagpipe part for the musical office, see cantor.
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