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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Hornpipe (0.01748 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Hornpipe.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: hornpipe
hornpipe
n 1: a British solo dance performed by sailors
2: music for dancing the hornpipe
3: an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made
of bone [syn:
pibgorn,
stockhorn]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Hornpipe
Hornpipe
\Horn"pipe`\, n. (Mus.)
(a) 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.
(b) A lively tune played on a hornpipe, for dancing; a tune
adapted for such playing.
[1913 Webster]
Many a hornpipe he tuned to his Phyllis. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
(c) A dance performed, usually by one person, to such a tune,
and popular among sailors.
[1913 Webster]
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