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stock⋅horn

[stok-hawrn]
–noun
pibgorn.

Origin:
stock + horn

pib⋅gorn

[pib-gawrn]
–noun
an ancient wind instrument of Wales resembling the hornpipe.
Also, pib⋅corn [pib-kawrn] .
Also called stockhorn.


Origin:
1760–70; < Welsh pib gorn, equiv. to pib pipe 1 + gorn, lenited form of corn horn
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stockhorn

noun
an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone [syn: hornpipe
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