Definitions for hornpipe

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hornpipe horn·pipe

Spelling: [hawrn-pahyp]

IPA: /ˈhɔrnˌpaɪp/

Hornpipe is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in hornpipe (ehinoppr).

Definitions for hornpipe

noun

1. an English folk clarinet having one ox horn concealing the reed and another forming the bell.
2. a lively jiglike dance, originally to music played on a hornpipe, performed usually by one person, and traditionally a favorite of sailors.
3. a piece of music for or in the style of such a dance.

Origin of hornpipe

1350-1400; Middle English. See horn, pipe¹

Examples for hornpipe

Give them the hornpipe, Jack, when the sliding and sprawling is finished.

It's like saying your prayers to a hornpipe, thinking of her and carrying on with them wastrels.

He intimated also to Jack that he must get up and go through his hornpipe again.

Theyll be sayin the Old Hundredth is a Dutch hornpipe next, he growled.

He had to do a little jubilating himself, so he got up and began a hornpipe.

And if it will make your dinner agree with you, I will dance you a hornpipe into the bargain.

I could dance a hornpipe with anybody, and forward I came to listen.

In Britain, you have the hornpipe, a dance which is held an original of this country.

Tom was talked about: biceps like thighs, now: a hornpipe danced on the hands.

That comes off, and he is an American sailor, with his hands on his hips dancing a hornpipe.