单词 | hornpipe |
释义 | hornpipen. 1. a. An obsolete wind instrument. Said to have been so called from having the bell and mouthpiece made of horn. See Penny Cycl. XII. 297. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > hornpipe hornpipe14.. pibgorn1770 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 575/37 Cornubium, an hornpipe. c1400 Rom. Rose 4250 Controve he wolde, and foule fayle, With hornepypes of Cornewayle. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 23 A..Tabrere That..a Horne pype playd. 1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. C3v Desiring them to play on an horne-pipe. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 570 The shrill Horn-pipe sounds to Bacchanals. 1788 Chambers's Cycl. (new ed.) Hornpipe, a common instrument of music in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at stated distances and a horn at each end. 1891 Daily News 5 Oct. 2/3 Among other instruments were..the original hornpipe, which has now given its name to the popular sailors' dance. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > wind player > [noun] > hornpipe player hornpipe1693 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xlvi. 373 You will be the Hornepipe of Busancay. 2. A dance of a lively and vigorous character, usually performed by a single person, originally to the accompaniment of the wind instrument, and specially associated with the merrymaking of sailors. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > hornpipe > [noun] hornpipec1485 hornpiping1864 c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) v. (stage direct.) (ad fin.) Here mynstrallys, an hornpype. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 181 Many other kindes of daunces (as hornepypes Iygges and infinite more). 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 106. ⁋6 Florinda..having danced the Derbyshire Hornpipe in the Presence of several Friends. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Hornpipe, a country dance, danced commonly to a horn. 1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) vii. 80 It appeared from the heavy tread and shuffling of feet that some were dancing hornpipes. 3. A piece of music for such a dance. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [noun] > folk or country dance > hornpipe hornpipe1789 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. 397 Harry Carey's ballad..is a slower kind of hornpipe. 1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 297/1 That the dance-tunes still called Hornpipes were originally composed for the instrument. 1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 753/1 Hornpipes were much written in the last century..The airs ‘My love is but a lassie yet’ and ‘The British Grenadier’, and the hymn tune ‘Helmsley’, are hornpipes. 4. attributive, as hornpipe dancer, hornpipe fling. Π 1797 Monthly Mag. 3 61 The hornpipe movement given to ‘When on the ocean’, is particularly pleasing. a1833 J. T. Smith Bk. for Rainy Day (1845) 6 Nancy Dawson, the famous hornpipe dancer, died this year [1767]. Derivatives ˈhornpiping n. playing or dancing a hornpipe. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > hornpipe > [noun] hornpipec1485 hornpiping1864 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [noun] > specific type of music gibbeting1615 fuguing1694 serenading1797 hornpiping1864 ragging1899 jazzing1917 riffing1933 rocking1948 rock 'n' rolling1956 skiffling1957 rifferama1977 riffola1979 hip-hopping1987 riffage1991 1864 Realm 30 Mar. 8 When we have praised..Miss Lydia Thompson's lively hornpiping. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.14.. |
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