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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bagpipe/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bagpipe/#x1)
- You can hear bagpipes from a long way away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bagpipe/#x2)
- Bagpipes are famous in Scotland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bagpipe/#x3)
- The bagpipe player wore a kilt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bagpipe/#x4)
- Ireland and Spain have their own kinds of bagpipe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bagpipe/#x5)
- There they found the ratcatcher playing his bagpipes at the same spot as the evening before. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bagpipe/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bagpipe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bagpipe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.