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/ˈbagˌpīp/,
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bagpipes, plural;
  1. A musical instrument with reed pipes that are sounded by the pressure of wind emitted from a bag squeezed by the player's arm. Bagpipes are associated esp. with Scotland, but are also used in folk music in Ireland, Northumberland, and France

  1. (bagpipe) a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone
  2. (bagpiper) piper: someone who plays the bagpipe
  3. Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. ...
  4. "Bagpipes" is the sixth episode of the fifth season of the CBS situation comedy How I Met Your Mother and 94th overall. It originally aired on November 2, 2009.
  5. (Bagpiper) List of notable bagpipers by types of bagpipes in alphabetical order. For a list of different kinds of bagpipes, see List of bagpipes
  6. A musical wind instrument having a flexible bag inflated by a tube or bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes. There are several types from different national traditions, each having peculiar characteristics
  7. (Bag-Pipe) This is not a bad dream, unless the music be harsh and the player in rags. _Baghavad Ghitta_. To dream of the Baghavad, foretells for you a season of seclusion; also rest to the exhausted faculties. A pleasant journey for your advancement will be planned by your friends. ...
  8. (Bagpipe (to)) A sail set to weather, so forming a bag when lying head to or nearly head to wind. Can be used to induce sternway or move the stern to leeward.
  9. (Bagpipe) To bring the sheet of an after-sail, such as the mizen, forward to the weather rigging, so that the sail forms a bag, or back sail: when head to wind useful to put stern way on a vessel.
  10. (bagpipe (n)) A shrill-toned musical instrument, primarily Scottish in origin, with one double-reed pipe operated by finger stops and one or more drone pipes, all sounded by air forced from a leather bag, which in turn is kept filled by the player s breath
  11. The bagpipe is the national instrument of Ireland and Scotland. It is made out of a leather air bag and three sounding pipes. The player fills the bag through a mouthpiece and presses the air out the sounding pipes. ...
  12. To bagpipe the mizzen, is to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the weather mizzen rigging.
  13. A composite instrument in which air is forced through one or more drones and chanter from an inflated bag or bladder.
  14. A Scottish instrument (of torture, war, mass destruction) whose sound resembles that of a cat being run over by a car...
  15. Anthony Baines, ISBN 0-902793-10-1, Book Rivers Museum, Univ. of Oxford, 3rd edition, 1995 147 pages with plates
  16. If you dream either of seeing or hearing bagpipes, it means that your marriage will be long delayed.
  17. A wind instrument made with an inflatable bag with a pipe to blow into and one or more pipes that produce musical notes.
  18. This is not a fortunate instrument to dream of seeing or hearing, indicating unhappiness in marriage or romance.