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hornpipe|ˈhɔːnpaɪp|
1. An obsolete wind instrument. Said to have been so called from having the bell and mouthpiece made of horn. See Penny Cycl. XII. 297.
c1400Rom. Rose 4250 Controve he wolde, and foule fayle, With hornepypes of Cornewayle. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 575/37 Cornubium, an hornpipe. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. May 23 A..Tabrere That..a Horne pype playd. 1592Greene Groat's W. Wit (1637) 14 Desiring them to play on an horn pipe. 1697Dryden æneid xi. 1086 The shrill horn-pipe sounds to bacchanals. 1788Chambers' Cycl., Hornpipe, a common instrument of music in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at stated distances and a horn at each end. 1891Daily News 5 Oct. 2/3 Among other instruments were..the original hornpipe, which has now given its name to the popular sailors' dance.
†b. One who played the instrument. Obs.
a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xlvi. 373 You will be the Hornepipe of Busancay.
2. A dance of a lively and vigorous character, usually performed by a single person, orig. to the accompaniment of the wind instrument, and specially associated with the merrymaking of sailors.
c1485Digby Myst. (1882) v. Stage direct, ad fin., Here mynstrallys, an hornpype. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. 181 Many other kindes of daunces (as hornepypes Iygges and infinite more). 1709Steele Tatler No. 106 ⁋6 Florinda..having danced the Derbyshire Hornpipe in the Presence of several Friends. 1755Johnson, Hornpipe, a country dance, danced commonly to a horn. 1833H. Martineau Manch. Strike vii. 80 It appeared from the heavy tread and shuffling of feet that some were dancing hornpipes.
fig.1798Wolcott (P. Pindar) Tales of Hoy Wks. (1823) 169/1 The true heart dances no hornpipes on the tongue. 1849Lytton Caxtons 38 My father..could conjure wonderfully, make a bunch of keys dance a hornpipe.
3. A piece of music for such a dance.
1789Burney Hist. Mus. III. vii. 397 Harry Carey's ballad..is a slower kind of hornpipe. 1838Penny Cycl. XII. 297/1 That the dance-tunes still called Hornpipes were originally composed for the instrument. 1879Grove Dict. Mus. 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. attrib., as hornpipe dancer, hornpipe fling.
1797Monthly Mag. III. 61 The hornpipe movement given to ‘When on the ocean’, is particularly pleasing. 1845J. T. Smith Bk. for Rainy Day 6 Nancy Dawson, the famous hornpipe dancer, died this year [1767].
Hence ˈhornpiping, playing or dancing a hornpipe.
1864Realm 30 Mar. 8 When we have praised..Miss Lydia Thompson's lively hornpiping. |