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BAGPIPE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("bagpipe" is a kind of...):
pipe (a tubular wind instrument)
Meronyms (parts of "bagpipe"):
chanter; melody pipe (reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played)
bourdon; drone; drone pipe (a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bagpipe"):
musette; shepherd's pipe (a small bagpipe formerly popular in France)