Definitions for pibroch

pibroch pi·broch

Spelling: [pee-brokh]
IPA: /ˈpi brɒx/

Pibroch is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 155 anagrams from letters in pibroch (bchiopr).

Definitions for pibroch

noun

  1. (in the Scottish Highlands) a piece of music for the bagpipe, consisting of a series of variations on a basic theme, usually martial in character, but sometimes used as a dirge.

Origin of pibroch

1710-20; Scots Gaelic piobaireachd piper music, equivalent to piobair piper (piob pipe1 + -air agent suffix ≪ Latin -ārius -ary) +

Examples for pibroch

If I had thocht o't I wad hae brocht my kilts and my pibroch and a' that.'

Does she think the pibroch could be taken down in a phonograph.

It is no pibroch there will be this night, for Donald is away.

The pibroch said to have been composed by Helen MacGregor is still in existence.

From hill to hill the pibroch leaps, and hearts and feet quicken at its sound.

I have told Donald what pibroch he will play; I want to be at peace now.

Gilian had the siubhal of the pibroch but begun when the blind man stopped him.

And as you can't compose another one, it may as well be the "pibroch."

Ere we start, Hamish, play us a Gathering—and then a pibroch.

And heard McDonald's guns in the valley and his pibroch on the hills.

Word Value for pibroch
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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