hornpipe

n. 号笛, 号笛舞曲, 号笛舞

词形变化

hornpipes 复数 hornpipes hornpiped hornpipes 三单 hornpiping hornpiping 现在分词 hornpiped 过去式 hornpiped 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A musical instrument consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals.

    音乐
  2. 2.

    A solo dance commonly associated with seamen, involving kicking of the legs, with the arms mostly crossed.

  3. 3.

    A hard-shoe solo dance commonly performed in Irish stepdance, usually danced in 2/4 time.

  4. 4.

    Music played to the hornpipe dance

v.
  1. 1.

    To dance the hornpipe.

    不及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

pibgorn stockhorn

上位词 3

folk dancing dance music folk dance

词源

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

来源：wiktionary