| 单词 | pibgorn | 
| 释义 | pibgornn.  A form of hornpipe (hornpipe n. 1) traditionally played in parts of Wales and Cornwall. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > 			[noun]		 > hornpipe hornpipe14.. pibgorn1770 1770    D. Barrington Mus. Instruments Wales in  Archæol. 		(1775)	 3 viii. 33  				Another very rude musical instrument..scarcely used in any other part of North Wales, except the island of Anglesey, where it is called a Pib-corn. 1784    E. Jones Mus. Relicks Welsh Bards 43  				The Pîbgorn or Horn Pipe, is so called, because both extremities are made of horn. 1815    P. Roberts Cambrian Antiq. 145  				I suppose the Scotch Pipe, like the Welsh Pib-gorn, had but six finger-holes. 1844    Times 18 Nov. 4/2 		(advt.)	  				The Song of the Mountain Goat-herd... Played by M. Barret, in imitation of the ancient pibcorn, called by the Britons the pipe of peace. 1852    W. Wickenden Hunchback's Chest 214  				Here and there a shepherd was seated on a grassy knoll playing his pigborn [sic]. 1921    W. S. G. Williams 		(title of song)	  				I hear a shepherd's pibgorn. 1968    J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 316  				The Pibcorn, of Wales, dating from the eighteenth century, was a pastoral hornpipe. 1998    Scotsman 		(Nexis)	 7 Apr. 19  				The sextet also featured the blaring pibgorn—the Welsh equivalent of the stock-and-horn familiar in Scots pastoral images. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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