单词 | hornpipe |
释义 | hornpipe (once / 13539 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY hornpipe: hornpipes USAGE EXAMPLESIn his shows, he would play “Fisher’s Hornpipe” with one hand, “Yankee Doodle” with the other, all while also singing “Dixie.” Washington Post(Feb 15, 2016) With hard shoes, feet can “drum” to the beat of hornpipes and heavy jigs. Washington Post(Nov 30, 2014) Not infrequently, the others who played the British jigs and hornpipes with me on fiddle or pipe were of my Africk race. M.T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian No...(2006) 1 n an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone 2Syn|Hyper pibgorn, stockhorn single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind a beating-reed instrument with a single reed (as a clarinet or saxophone) 1n a British solo dance performed by sailors Hyper folk dance, folk dancing a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts) 2n music for dancing the hornpipe Hyper dance music music to dance to |
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