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piper /ˈpʌɪpə /noun1A bagpipe player.AS THE drone of the bagpipes settles into a pleasing skirl, the piper enters and a hush falls over the crowd....- The Piping Centre's founding director of piping is also one of the world's most accomplished solo pipers and a pipe major with the acclaimed ScottishPower Pipe Band.
- Standing on a makeshift stage of whisky barrels, the six drummers, pipers and vocalists are a dishevelled-looking bunch: think Braveheart meets Mad Max.
2A person who plays a pipe, especially an itinerant musician.MacDonald himself will play various pipes and flute, accompanied by seven other pipers and four backing musicians....- Three pipers, piping furiously, entered the gaming-space, followed by twelve young warriors in white cloaks and helmets decorated with the tail-feathers of the black eagle.
- This is always quite a ceremony, with pipers piping and whisky flowing and famous faces popping up all over.
OriginRhymesgriper, sniper, swiper, viper, wiper |