Find the word definition

Wiktionary
shepherd's pipe

n. 1 (context musical instruments English) The musette; a small bagpipe. 2 (context musical instruments English) The pipes of Pan; a pan flute.

WordNet
shepherd's pipe
  1. n. a small bagpipe formerly popular in France [syn: musette]

  2. a small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes [syn: flageolet, treble recorder]

Usage examples of "shepherd's pipe".

She freed her hair from the ribbon, letting it tumble around her face while she carefully stored My Lady in her case, and stuck her shepherd's pipe in her belt.

After a moment of muttering and scowling, she brought up a bartered case, opened it and took out an equally battered silver shepherd's pipe with an odd-looking mouthpiece.

Garric had played the shepherd's pipe in Barca's Hamlet, six reeds of graduated length with wax-stopped ends.

Garric played a shepherd's pipe of reeds stoppered at the bottom with wax so that each different length vibrated at a graduated note.

Somewhere up there beneath the beech treessomeone was playing a shepherd's pipe, and the gay tune came floatingdown to Maria like a voice calling her.

There were a couple of fiddles, another lute, a guitar, a shepherd's pipe and a flute, a mandolin, a hurdy-gurdy, a trumpet and a horn, three harps of various sizes, plus several things she couldn't identify.