BAGPIPE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bagpipe" is a kind of...):

pipe (a tubular wind instrument)

Meronyms (parts of "bagpipe"):

chanter; melody pipe (reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played)

bourdon; drone; drone pipe (a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bagpipe"):

musette; shepherd's pipe (a small bagpipe formerly popular in France)