01 n. An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. It was so called because the bell a…
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An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. It was so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn.(Mus.)“Many a hornpipe he tuned to his Phyllis.” — Sir W. Raleigh.