piper
piper — noun
1. a musician whose instrument is either a simple wind pipe (a thin tube blown thro
a musician whose instrument is either a simple wind pipe (a thin tube blown through the lips) or, more often in modern use, the bagpipes traditional to Scotland and Ireland.
A lone piper led the wedding party out of the church and across the lawn.
common collocation: a lone piper
Marcus hired three pipers from Glasgow to play at his grandfather's funeral.
plural countable: hire pipers to play
The piper wore a green kilt and stood very still on the castle wall.
Every summer, pipers from across Europe gather in this small Scottish town for a week of competition.
Lina's grandfather was a piper in the army band for thirty years.
- bagpiper
more specific — only refers to a bagpipes player, never to a player of a simple pipe
- piper player
non-standard; avoid
- pipe-blower
rare and informal; mainly used jokingly
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Subject is usually a person introduced by name, role, or number ('a lone piper', 'three pipers'). In modern British and Irish English the bagpipe meaning is far more common than the simple-pipe meaning; the latter mostly survives in folk-music and historical contexts.