bagpipe Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone

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Bag"pipe noun
Definitions
  1. A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland. ✍ 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.
Bag"pipe transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To make to look like a bagpipe.

Webster 1913