Middle English Dictionary Entry
horn-pīpe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | horn-pīpe n. |
| Etymology | From horn & pīpe n.(1). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A wind instrument made (or partly made) of horn; (b) ?the music of this instrument; (c) one who plays on this instrument; -- only as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)4250 : Controve he wolde, and foule fayle, With hornepipes of Cornewaile.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)247 : Hornpype: Palpista.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)575/37 : Cornubium: an hornpipe.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)1280 : Semyvocals, as Trumpe and Clarioun And pipe or horn, an hornepipe thoo It myghte be.
- a1475 Herkyn to my tale (Brog 2.1)86 : The humbul-be haundylt a horne-pype; her fyngurs wer smalle.
b
- c1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)p.60 : Here entreth vi women..here mynstrell, a hornepype.
c
- (1439) in Ewen Surnames Brit.324 : J. Hornepipe.