bagpipe

«bagpipe» in Mova's school dictionary: a musical instrument with a bag that the player fills… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a bagpipe, bagpipes — usually «the bagpipes»)

meaning for a pupil

The bagpipes are a musical instrument with a bag that the player fills with air and squeezes, and pipes that make a loud, buzzing sound. tree →

sense in the lessons

In music lessons and stories about Scotland and Ireland; played at weddings, parades and funerals; it shows Scottish tradition; phrases: play the bagpipes, a bagpipe player (piper).

examples

• The piper played the bagpipes at the wedding. tree →
• You can hear bagpipes from a long way away. tree →
• Bagpipes are famous in Scotland. tree →
• The bagpipe player wore a kilt. tree →
• Ireland and Spain have their own kinds of bagpipe. tree →
• There they found the ratcatcher playing his bagpipes at the same spot as the evening before. tree →

note

Usually plural: «the bagpipes», «play the bagpipes». A player is a «piper». Myth: bagpipes are not only Scottish; many countries have them.

In the corpora

• Many places have bagpipes: Scotland, Ireland's uilleann pipes, the gaita of Galicia in Spain and the gaida of Bulgaria.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bagpipe» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.