bagpipe

[bag-pahyp] /ˈbægˌpaɪp/
noun
1.
Often, bagpipes. a reed instrument consisting of a melody pipe and one or more accompanying drone pipes protruding from a windbag into which the air is blown by the mouth or a bellows.
verb (used with object), bagpiped, bagpiping.
2.
Nautical. to back (a fore-and-aft sail) by hauling the sheet to windward.
Origin
1300-50; Middle English baggepipe. See bag, pipe1
Related forms
bagpiper, noun
British Dictionary definitions for bagpipes

bagpipes

/ˈbæɡˌpaɪps/
plural noun
1.
any of a family of musical wind instruments in which sounds are produced in reed pipes supplied with air from a bag inflated either by the player's mouth, as in the Irish bagpipes or Highland bagpipes of Scotland, or by arm-operated bellows, as in the Northumbrian bagpipes

bagpipe

/ˈbæɡˌpaɪp/
noun
1.
(modifier) of or relating to the bagpipes: a bagpipe maker
Word Origin and History for bagpipes

bagpipe

n.

late 14c., from bag (n.) + pipe (n.1); originally a favorite instrument in England as well as the Celtic lands, but by 1912 English army officers' slang for it was agony bags. Related: Bagpiper (early 14c.).