hornpipe
1. a British solo dance performed by sailors (Freq. 1) • Regions: United Kingdom, UK, U.K., Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain • Hypernyms: folk dancing, folk dance 2. music for dancing the hornpipe • Hypernyms: dance music 3. an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone • Syn: pibgorn, stockhorn • Usage Domain: archaism, archaicism • Hypernyms: single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind
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