bagpipe

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a wind instrument whose pipes are sounded from air stored in a bag, usually referred to in the plural as bagpipes

   A lone bagpipe played a slow lament at the ceremony.

2. 2
   verb

   to play the bagpipes or produce a sound resembling them

   The musician bagpiped at the head of the procession.

A compound of bag + pipe, recorded in Middle English. The name describes the instrument's defining construction: a reservoir bag supplies a continuous stream of air to one or more pipes.

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