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Definition of Hornpipe

1. Noun. A British solo dance performed by sailors.

2. Noun. Music for dancing the hornpipe.

3. Noun. An ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone.

Definition of Hornpipe

1. 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 at the open end was sometimes made of horn.

Definition of Hornpipe

1. Noun. A musical instrument consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. ¹

2. Noun. A solo dance commonly associated with seamen, involving kicking of the legs, with the arms mostly crossed. ¹

3. Noun. A hard-shoe solo dance commonly performed in Irish stepdance, usually danced in 2/4 time. ¹

4. Noun. Music played to the hornpipe dance ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) To dance the hornpipe. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hornpipe

1. a musical instrument [n -S]

Medical Definition of Hornpipe

1. 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. A lively tune played on a hornpipe, for dancing; a tune adapted for such playing. "Many a hornpipe he tuned to his Phyllis." (Sir W. Raleigh) A dance performed, usually by one person, to such a tune, and popular among sailors. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hornpipe

hornists hornito hornitoes hornitos hornless hornlessness hornlessnesses hornlet hornlets hornlike

hornotine hornowl hornowls hornpike hornpikes hornpipe (current term) hornpiped hornpipes hornpiping hornpout

hornpouts horns horns of hyoid bone horns of plenty horns of saphenous opening horns of thyroid cartilage hornsnake hornsnakes hornstone hornstones

Literary usage of Hornpipe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1829)
".Misa hornpipe Teazle (Prime Minister's dam), br. 1803. ... Miss Cranfield, b. dam (Sister to Sir Sidney) by hornpipe, ..."

2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"В.*«!»« : the rub/ma. - 1 bad thought To doue upon nothing. To be hanged. Dances (National Dance») : ««¡ль i the hornpipe and ..."

3. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1861)
"Goldsmith's hornpipe and epigram.—Uncle Contarine.—School studies and school sports.—Mistakes of a night. THERE are few writers for whom the reader feels ..."

4. Works by Washington Irving (1897)
"... Schoolmistress—Byrne, the Village Schoolmaster—Goldsmith's hornpipe and Epigram —Uncle Contarine—School Studies and School Sports—Mistakes of a Night. ..."

5. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1860)
"hornpipe, a wind instrument, once a favorite with the Welsh peasantry, and probably still in use among them, consisting of a wooden pipe with holes at ..."

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