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hornpipe
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The hornpipe can refer to a specific instrument or a class of woodwind instruments consisting of a single reed, a small diameter melody pipe with finger holes and a bell traditionally made from animal horn. Additionally, a reed cap of animal horn may be ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a British solo dance performed by sailors music for dancing the hornpipe an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone [syn: pibgorn , stockhorn ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, hornepype , "musical instrument with bell and mouthpiece made of horn," from horn (n.) + pipe (n.1). Later (late 15c.) "dance associated with sailors" (originally performed to music from such an instrument).
Usage examples of hornpipe.
He was about to say more when the music of hornpipe, shawm, and sackbut started up.
Conmee on Christass, lame crutch and leg sailor in cockboat armfolded ropepulling hitching stamp hornpipe through and through.
He could barely see Robin and Hautbois, and Hornpipe was completely swallowed in the mist.
She was riding alone on Hornpipe, followed by Robin on Hautbois and Chris and Gaby on Valiha.
Nowhere could they see Cirocco and Hornpipe, Gaby, Hautbois, or Robin.
As Emma Jean started the hornpipe, fingerpicking the melody on her guitar, Miki studied the crowd, looking for familiar faces.
The young madcap suddenly proposed that the girls should dance a hornpipe in the costume of Mother Eve, and they consented on the condition that we would adopt the dress of Father Adam, and that blind musicians were summoned.
Hornpipe was drenched in sweat, like someone kicking a heroin or alcohol addiction.
I also believe that your earth pig flies, dances the hornpipe and tells fortunes by cards.
Yet from time to time Hornpipe called out to tell her he had seen another hoof mark.
Jack's Alive and hornpipes, of course, and some of the old dances, like Cuckolds All Awry and An Old Man's a Bed Full of Bones.
Just then she heard the first hornpipes and firecrackers of a fiesta, followed by the furious barking of the mastiffs in their cages.
Emily Boll took a turn on the keyboard, and Ezra Keroon enthusiastically fiddled a medley of hornpipes that had everyone foot-tapping while several couples did hilarious imitations of the traditional seamen´s dance.