Crossword-Solution: HORNPIPE
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| Hornpipe | n. | An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. It was so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn. |
| Hornpipe | n. | A lively tune played on a hornpipe, for dancing; a tune adapted for such playing. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “HORNPIPE”
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| Folk wind instrument | 1 answer |
| usually made of bone | 1 answer |
| an ancient single-reed woodwind | 1 answer |
| Salty dance | 1 answer |
| Sailor's jig | 1 answer |
| Sailor's dance | 1 answer |
| Obsolete instrument naval dance | 1 answer |
| Jig on the Hispaniola | 1 answer |
| Dance in "H.M.S. Pinafore" | 1 answer |
| British folk dance | 1 answer |
| Relative of a clarinet. | 2 answers |
| alboka | 3 answers |
| Lively old dance | 5 answers |
| Lively folk dance | 6 answers |
| A BRITISH SOLO DANCE PERFORMED BY SAILORS | 10 answers |
| Austria folk dance | 11 answers |
| BRITISH dance | 12 answers |
| Country Dance | 21 answers |
| Lively Dance | 34 answers |
| Dance | 115 answers |
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Sentences with HORNPIPE (5)
Yet this will I say for Malkin, for so I call her, that unless you were to borrow a ride on the juggler’s steed that paces a hornpipe amongst the eggs, you could not go a journey on a creature so gentle and smooth-paced.
Wiry Ben’s pride in his dancing—an accomplishment productive of great effect at the yearly Wake—had needed only slightly elevating by an extra quantity of good ale to convince him that the gentry would be very much struck with his performance of his hornpipe; and he had been decidedly encouraged in this idea by Joshua Rann, who observed that it was nothing but right to do something to please the young squire, in return for what he had done for them.
Tuckle, dressed out with the cocked hat and stick, danced the frog hornpipe among the shells on the table, while the gentleman in blue played an accompaniment upon an ingenious musical instrument formed of a hair-comb upon a curl-paper.
And such was the eagerness of the brother to display all the acquirements of his idol, and such the sleepy indifference of the performer, that the tune would as often as not be changed, and the hornpipe expire into a ballad before the dancers had cut half a dozen shuffles.
The exhibitor disappeared with all speed behind the drapery; and his partner, stationing himself by the side of the Theatre, surveyed the audience with a remarkable expression of melancholy, which became more remarkable still when he breathed a hornpipe tune into that sweet musical instrument which is popularly termed a mouth-organ, without at all changing the mournful expression of the upper part of his face, though his mouth and chin were, of necessity, in lively spasms.
Quotes with HORNPIPE (2)
How will we ever tell you apart?" Collins asked, unable to resist the question." It's really quite simple, sir, once you know us," the spokesman assured him. "If he's talking, it's probably George, because Geoff is a quiet lad; if he's dancing a hornpipe, it's Geoff, because hornpipes make me dizzy.""You're George, then?""Yes, sir - the eldest.""By five minutes and fifty-five seconds," added Geoffrey, frowning." Five minutes and fifty-nine seconds," George corrected him calmly.
She looked for any sign of the boy who'd taught her to whistle a hornpipe, who could palm an ace of hearts and make it reappear from her sleeve, but failed to find even a glimmer of him. Instead she saw Ida taking on a second life in the features of her only son, and for a quick heartbeat Jo was almost grateful for the scar tissue dimpled across her cheek, forehead, and chin. No one would ever be able to invade her face, she realized. She would always simply be herself, whether she liked it or not.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1969–2010).