a shrill-toned musical instrument with one double-reed pipe operated by finger stops and one or more drone pipes, all of them sounded by air forced with the arm from a leather bag, which is kept filled by the breath: now played chiefly in Scotland
Derived forms
bagpiper (ˈbagˌpiper)
noun
Examples of 'bagpipe' in a sentence
bagpipe
It had the keening of a bagpipe and the rhythmic thump of mediaeval music.