Definition of bagpipe Bagpipe

/bæˈgpajˌp/ - [batgpayp] - bag•pipe

We found 10 definitions of bagpipe from 8 different sources.

What does bagpipe mean?

Noun Plural: bagpipes
bagpipe - a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone
		pipe a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
		chanter, melody pipe reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played
		bourdon, drone pipe, drone stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen

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bagpipe (n.)
A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.
bagpipe (v. t.)
To make to look like a bagpipe.

bagpipe
bag′pīp, n. a musical wind-instrument, consisting of a leathern bag fitted with pipes. The Highland bagpipe has five pipes: a, the mouthpiece, to keep the bag filled with air; b, the chanter, having a reed and finger-holes to produce the melody; and c, three drones with reeds, tuned to act as a bass to the chanter: (pl.) an inflated, senseless talker.—n. Bag′piper

bagpipe
To bagpipe the mizen is to lay it aback, by bringing the sheet to the mizen-shrouds.

bagpipe
The name of a musical warlike instrument, of the wind kind, used by the Scotch regiments, and sometimes by the Irish. Bagpipes were used by the Danes, by the Romans, and by the Asiatics. The Greeks also had an instrument composed of a pipe and blown-up skin. The bagpipe has been a favorite instrument among the Scots. There are two varieties, the one with long pipes, sounded with the mouth; the other, with short pipes, filled with air by a bellows, and played on with the fingers. The first, the loudest and most ear-piercing of all music, is the genuine Highland pipe, and was suited to the warlike genius of that people. It formerly roused their courage to battle, alarmed them when secure, and collected them when scattered, solaced them in their long and painful marches, and in time of peace kept up the memory of the gallantry of their ancestors by the tunes composed after signal victories. The other is the Irish bagpipe.