hornpipe

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A musical instrument consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals.
  2. A solo dance commonly associated with seamen, involving kicking of the legs, with the arms mostly crossed.
  3. A hard-shoe solo dance commonly performed in Irish stepdance, usually danced in 2/4 time.
  4. Music played to the hornpipe dance
动词 v.
  1. To dance the hornpipe. intransitive

词形变化

hornpipes plural hornpipes present,singular,third-person hornpiping participle,present hornpiped participle,past hornpiped past

词汇关系

衍生词
hornpiper hornpipist

词源

词源 1
From Middle English hornpipe, hornpype, hornepipe, equivalent to horn + pipe; so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn.
词源 2
From Middle English hornpipe, hornpype, hornepipe, equivalent to horn + pipe; so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn.
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