Definition of hornpipes Hornpipes
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What does hornpipes mean?
Wiktionary 
- hornpipes (Noun)
Plural of hornpipe.
Part of speech
🔤- hornpipes, noun, plural of hornpipe.
WordNet
NounPlural: hornpipes |
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| hornpipe - a British solo dance performed by sailors | ||
| folk dance, folk dancing a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts) | ||
| hornpipe - an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | ||
| pibgorn, stockhorn | ||
| single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind a beating-reed instrument with a single reed (as a clarinet or saxophone) | ||
| hornpipe - music for dancing the hornpipe | ||
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Wiktionary
- hornpipe (Noun)
A musical instrument consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. - hornpipe (Noun)
A solo dance commonly associated with seamen, involving kicking of the legs, with the arms mostly crossed. - hornpipe (Noun)
A hard-shoe solo dance commonly performed in Irish stepdance , usually danced in 2/4 time. - hornpipe (Noun)
Music played to the hornpipe dance. - hornpipe (Verb)
To dance the hornpipe.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- hornpipe (n.)
An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. It was so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn. - hornpipe (n.)
A lively tune played on a hornpipe, for dancing; a tune adapted for such playing.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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hornpipe
horn′pīp, n. an old Welsh musical instrument resembling the clarinet: a lively air: a lively English dance, usually by one person, popular amongst sailors
Part of speech
🔤- hornpipe, noun, singular of hornpipes.
