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单词 corn-pipe
释义

corn-pipen.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcorn-pipe.
A rustic musical instrument made of a stalk of corn.
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c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 33 I beheld mony..hirdis blauuand ther buc hornis and ther corne pipis.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 52 The thrid playit on ane trump, the feyrd on ane corne pipe.
1722 T. Tickell Kensington Garden 19 Now the shrill corn-pipes, echoing loud to arms, To rank and file reduce the straggling swarms.
figurative.1828 T. Carlyle Goethe's Helena in Foreign Rev. 1 435 And so on, through all the variations of the critical cornpipe.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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