bagpipe

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bagpipe - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bagpipe \Bag"pipe\, n.
     A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands
     of Scotland.
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     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.
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  Bagpipe \Bag"pipe\, v. t.
     To make to look like a bagpipe.
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     To bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing
        the sheet to the mizzen rigging. --Totten.
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bagpipe - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  bagpipe
      n 1: a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag
           and squeezes it out through the drone