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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A musical instrument having a flexible bag inflated either by a tube with valves or by bellows, a double-reed melody pipe, and from one to four drone pipes. Often used in the plural.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A musical wind-instrument consisting of a leathern bag, which receives the air from the mouth, or from bellows, and of pipes, into which the air is pressed from the bag by the performer's elbow. It originated in the East, was known to the Greeks and Romans, was popular in Europe throughout the middle ages, and is still used in many eastern countries, as well as among the country people of Poland, Italy, the south of France, and in Scotland and Ireland. Though now often regarded as the national instrument of Scotland, especially Celtic Scotland, its origin and use seem to belong to the Celtic race in general. In its best-known form it has four pipes. One of these, called the chanter, has a double reed and eight finger-holes, so that melodies may be played upon it. Its compass may be approximately indicated thus:
  2. To cause to resemble a bagpipe.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Singular of bagpipes (normally used in plural)
  2. v. To play the bagpipes.

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

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

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