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Noun: hornpipe  'horn,pIp
  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
    - pibgorn [archaic], stockhorn [archaic]

Derived forms: hornpipes

Type of: dance music, folk dance, folk dancing, single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind

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