different between hornpike vs hornpipe
hornpike
English
Etymology
From horn +? pike.
Noun
hornpike (plural hornpikes)
- (Britain, dialect) The garfish.
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hornpipe
English
Etymology
From Middle English hornpipe, hornpype, hornepipe, equivalent to horn +? pipe; so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn.
Noun
hornpipe (plural hornpipes)
- (music) A musical instrument consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals.
- A solo dance commonly associated with seamen, involving kicking of the legs, with the arms mostly crossed.
- A hard-shoe solo dance commonly performed in Irish stepdance, usually danced in 2/4 time.
- Music played to the hornpipe dance
Derived terms
- hornpiper, hornpipist
Verb
hornpipe (third-person singular simple present hornpipes, present participle hornpiping, simple past and past participle hornpiped)
- (intransitive) To dance the hornpipe.
Anagrams
- porphine
Middle English
Noun
hornpipe
- Alternative form of hornepipe
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