Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hornpipe , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A
Welsh wind instrument orpipe with ahorn at each end.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Welsh pib pipe + corn horn.
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Examples
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I do not believe that all the inhabitants of Wales, who used to step to the sound of the rustic pibcorn, went down to ruin.
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