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‖ ˈpibcorn Obs. exc. Hist.
[app. for Welsh pib gorn horn-pipe (Owen Pugh), lit. ‘pipe of horn’; but the compound pibgorn would mean ‘horn with a pipe’, pipe-horn. The name appears to be a rendering of Eng. hornpipe.]
A form of the horn-pipe formerly used in Wales: see quots.
(Never really an Eng. word, but admitted into Dictionaries from Crabb.)
1770Daines Barrington Mus. Instrum. Wales in Archæol. III. (1775) 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, and where Mr. Wynn of Penhescedd gives an annual prize for the best performer... The name of it signifies the hornpipe (Note. Literally the Pipe-horn). 1794E. Jones Rel. Welsh Bards 116 Pib⁓gorn1. 1815Roberts Cambrian Pop. Antiq. 145, I suppose the Scotch Pipe, like the Welsh Pib-gorn, had but six finger-holes. 1823Crabb Technol. Dict., Pib-corn, (Mus.) the Hornpipe. 1852W. Wickenden Hunchback's Chest 214 Here and there a shepherd was seated on a grassy knoll playing his pigborn [error for pibgorn]. 1870N. & Q. 4th Ser. VI. 512. a 1953 [see crwth]. 1968J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 316 The Pibcorn, of Wales, dating from the eighteenth century, was a pastoral hornpipe. |