Usually means: Traditional dance, often in sailors' attire.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. hornpipe: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hornpipe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hornpipe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hornpipe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hornpipe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hornpipe, hornpipe: Wordnik
  7. hornpipe: Wiktionary
  8. hornpipe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hornpipe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hornpipe: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Hornpipe, hornpipe: Dictionary.com
  12. Hornpipe (instrument), Hornpipe (musical instrument), Hornpipe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Hornpipe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. hornpipe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. hornpipe: Rhymezone
  16. Hornpipe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. hornpipe: Free Dictionary
  18. hornpipe: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. hornpipe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. hornpipe: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. hornpipe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Hornpipe: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hornpipe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hornpipe: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hornpipe: The Folk File

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See hornpipes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (music) A musical instrument consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals.
noun:  A solo dance commonly associated with seamen, involving kicking of the legs, with the arms mostly crossed.
noun:  A hard-shoe solo dance commonly performed in Irish stepdance, usually danced in 2/4 time.
noun:  Music played to the hornpipe dance
verb:  (intransitive) To dance the hornpipe.

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