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单词 drone pipe
释义

drone pipen.

Brit. /ˈdrəʊn pʌɪp/, U.S. /ˈdroʊn ˌpaɪp/
Forms: see drone n.2 and pipe n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: drone n.2, drone v.1, pipe n.1
Etymology: < either drone n.2 or drone v.1 + pipe n.1
1. In a bagpipe: a bass pipe which emits only one continuous tone (cf. drone n.2 1b). Also in extended use.
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1600 tr. T. Garzoni Hosp. Incurable Fooles 116 Bee sure they will hang vp in honour of thee in thy temple, a Cimball or droane pipe, much like that of Morrice dauncers in a merrie May day morning.
a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 2 While his canting Drone-pipe scan'd The mystick Figures of her hand.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 229 The drone-pipe of an humble bee.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 170/1 A bagpipes [sic] has got five pipes—the chanter, the drone pipe, the two tenor pipes, and the blow-stick.
1908 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 27 117 A bagpipe with two chanters and four long drone pipes.
2014 Toronto Star (Nexis) 18 Oct. (Travel section) 6 I stop and ask to finger a tune on the melody pipe while the piper powers the music with its drone pipes by filling the bags.
2. A didgeridoo.
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1905 L. C. E. Gee Jrnl. 3 June in Rep. Explor. Govt. Geologist Northern Territories S. Austral. (1906) ii. 10 Bubs' imitation of the bamboo drone pipe was excellent, and we discovered that he was the artist who had performed on the drone pipe throughout the big corrobboree given at Port Darwin in honor of His Excellency.
1946 D. Barr Warrigal Joe 53 ‘Didgerydoo,’ Dan explained for the benefit of the jackeroo and Bob Greely, who had never before heard the ‘music’ of the drone-pipe.
2009 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 14 Mar. (Travel section) 15 You can't miss the unmistakable deep sound of this long wooden wind instrument (sometimes referred to as a ‘drone pipe’).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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