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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BAG'PIPE, N.[bag and pipe.]
A musical wind instrument, used chiefly in Scotland and Ireland. It consists of a leathern bag, which receives the air by a tube, which is stopped by a valve; and pipes, into which the air is pressed by the performer. The base-pipe is called the drone, and the tenor or treble is called the chanter. The pipes have eight holes like those of a flute, which the performer stops and opens at pleasure. There are several species of bag-pipes, as the soft and melodious Irish bag-pipe, with two short drones and a long one; the Highland bag-pipe, with two short drones, the music of which is very loud; the Scot's Lowland bag-pipe, which is played with a bellows and is also a loud instrument. There is also a small pipe, with a chanter about eight inches in length.
In seamanship, to bag-pipe the mizen, is to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizen shrouds.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century a wind instrument consisting of a reed melody pipe and from one to five drones with air supplied continuously either by a bag with valve-stopped mouth tube or by bellows — often used in plural • bagpiper noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (usu. in pl.) a musical instrument consisting of a windbag connected to two kinds of reeded pipes: drone pipes which produce single sustained notes and a fingered melody pipe or 'chanter'. Derivatives: bagpiper n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bagpipe Bag"pipe, n. A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland. Note: It consists of a leather bag, which receives the air by a tube that is stopped by a valve; and three sounding pipes, into which the air is pressed by the performer. Two of these pipes produce fixed tones, namely, the bass, or key tone, and its fifth, and form together what is called the drone; the third, or chanter, gives the melody.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bagpipe Bag"pipe, v. t. To make to look like a bagpipe. To bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging. --Totten.