Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pipe producing a droning sound; hence, poetically, the droning hum of an insect.
- noun Specifically
- noun The largest tube of a bagpipe, which produces the droning sound; the drone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of the low-toned
tubes of abagpipe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
Etymologies
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drone + pipe
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Examples
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The wail of the shaum and dronepipe sent shivery hackles up his spine-not Bardcraft, but close, close ....
Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2001
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The wail of the shaum and dronepipe sent shivery hackles up his spine-not Bardcraft, but close, close ....
Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2000
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