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Definition of piper in English: pipernoun ˈpʌɪpəˈpaɪpər 1A bagpipe player. 风笛吹奏者 Example sentencesExamples - We are looking for drummers and pipers to continue a long tradition of good music.
- Standing on a makeshift stage of whisky barrels, the six drummers, pipers and vocalists are a dishevelled-looking bunch: think Braveheart meets Mad Max.
- It's there you'll see the pipers and the fiddlers competing
- Mr Pitt, 49, said: " We have arranged for a Scottish piper to lead the procession.
- It was brought into the station by the lord provost of Stirling, Colin O'Brien, accompanied by pipers to the tune of ‘Scots Wha Hae’.
- You enter the city, riding a white charger, with 100 pipers leading the procession.
- I don't know anything about the Germans' feelings about the bagpipe except they often shot the pipers first.
- To the strains of The Green Hills, played by local pipers Eugene Murphy and his daughter Marie, the players entered the hall.
- AS THE drone of the bagpipes settles into a pleasing skirl, the piper enters and a hush falls over the crowd.
- During the offertory, Michael Delaney played the trumpet, and the piper piped during the communion.
- Their grandfather played the fiddle, and their father is a piper and singer of Gaelic songs.
- The Piping Centre's founding director of piping is also one of the world's most accomplished solo pipers and a pipe major with the acclaimed ScottishPower Pipe Band.
- PC Broadhurst was borne to the hearse to the accompaniment of a piper's lament and the tolling of a single bell.
- A lone piper played the lament before the crowd dispersed from the quayside following the ceremony.
- But don't expect to warm a brandy in front of a log fire serenaded by a piper's lament.
- It is awarded to a piper doing exactly what pipers in Scottish regiments are best known for which is encouraging the men into an attack.
- As well as the actor, the opening also featured Scottish pipers, clowns and a barbecue.
- Adrian Schofield was - still is - a champion Northumbrian piper, despite coming from Bolton.
- Outside the hotel a piper is being photographed by a South African rugby player as he plays a welcoming tune for a coachload of Scottish tourists.
- A lone piper played for the wedding party while it waited for Rachel's arrival.
2A person who plays a pipe, especially an itinerant musician. 管乐器吹奏者（尤指巡游音乐人） Example sentencesExamples - After word of Banks' presence spread, he became a modern-day pied piper.
- Three pipers, piping furiously, entered the gaming-space, followed by twelve young warriors in white cloaks and helmets decorated with the tail-feathers of the black eagle.
- There is also an album from Dublin-born uillean piper and tin whistle player, Ronan Browne.
- MacDonald himself will play various pipes and flute, accompanied by seven other pipers and four backing musicians.
- According to himself, he became fascinated with the pipes having seen and heard a travelling piper who called at his home in 1930.
- In South Africa and Lithuania disjunct panpipes - separate tubes with a group of pipers each playing one or two - are used.
- The modal tunes reminiscent of pipers ' fifes and reels mixed with ragtime and black scales is a really extraordinary and rich mixture, constantly a reminder of the history of the South.
- This is always quite a ceremony, with pipers piping and whisky flowing and famous faces popping up all over.
- Although he feared her, she could see he thought he had played her as a piper plays his pipe.
- Then the pipers and drummers struck up once again and everyone sang the Star Spangled Banner.
- The sitar player is like a pied piper leading the dinner guests as if they were rats.
- Virtuoso piper Jarlath has fused world music and traditional music to create a mesmeric and powerful sound.
- The band, consisting of a drummer, a piper and a fiddler, was playing a Torrencian song she knew, and she couldn't resist trying to join in.
Rhymesgriper, sniper, swiper, viper, wiper Definition of piper in US English: pipernounˈpaɪpərˈpīpər 1A bagpipe player. 风笛吹奏者 Example sentencesExamples - Standing on a makeshift stage of whisky barrels, the six drummers, pipers and vocalists are a dishevelled-looking bunch: think Braveheart meets Mad Max.
- You enter the city, riding a white charger, with 100 pipers leading the procession.
- Adrian Schofield was - still is - a champion Northumbrian piper, despite coming from Bolton.
- It is awarded to a piper doing exactly what pipers in Scottish regiments are best known for which is encouraging the men into an attack.
- We are looking for drummers and pipers to continue a long tradition of good music.
- A lone piper played for the wedding party while it waited for Rachel's arrival.
- A lone piper played the lament before the crowd dispersed from the quayside following the ceremony.
- It's there you'll see the pipers and the fiddlers competing
- As well as the actor, the opening also featured Scottish pipers, clowns and a barbecue.
- AS THE drone of the bagpipes settles into a pleasing skirl, the piper enters and a hush falls over the crowd.
- It was brought into the station by the lord provost of Stirling, Colin O'Brien, accompanied by pipers to the tune of ‘Scots Wha Hae’.
- I don't know anything about the Germans' feelings about the bagpipe except they often shot the pipers first.
- Outside the hotel a piper is being photographed by a South African rugby player as he plays a welcoming tune for a coachload of Scottish tourists.
- During the offertory, Michael Delaney played the trumpet, and the piper piped during the communion.
- Mr Pitt, 49, said: " We have arranged for a Scottish piper to lead the procession.
- To the strains of The Green Hills, played by local pipers Eugene Murphy and his daughter Marie, the players entered the hall.
- But don't expect to warm a brandy in front of a log fire serenaded by a piper's lament.
- Their grandfather played the fiddle, and their father is a piper and singer of Gaelic songs.
- The Piping Centre's founding director of piping is also one of the world's most accomplished solo pipers and a pipe major with the acclaimed ScottishPower Pipe Band.
- PC Broadhurst was borne to the hearse to the accompaniment of a piper's lament and the tolling of a single bell.
2A person who plays a pipe, especially an itinerant musician. 管乐器吹奏者（尤指巡游音乐人） Example sentencesExamples - Virtuoso piper Jarlath has fused world music and traditional music to create a mesmeric and powerful sound.
- MacDonald himself will play various pipes and flute, accompanied by seven other pipers and four backing musicians.
- According to himself, he became fascinated with the pipes having seen and heard a travelling piper who called at his home in 1930.
- Although he feared her, she could see he thought he had played her as a piper plays his pipe.
- After word of Banks' presence spread, he became a modern-day pied piper.
- In South Africa and Lithuania disjunct panpipes - separate tubes with a group of pipers each playing one or two - are used.
- This is always quite a ceremony, with pipers piping and whisky flowing and famous faces popping up all over.
- Then the pipers and drummers struck up once again and everyone sang the Star Spangled Banner.
- The band, consisting of a drummer, a piper and a fiddler, was playing a Torrencian song she knew, and she couldn't resist trying to join in.
- The sitar player is like a pied piper leading the dinner guests as if they were rats.
- Three pipers, piping furiously, entered the gaming-space, followed by twelve young warriors in white cloaks and helmets decorated with the tail-feathers of the black eagle.
- The modal tunes reminiscent of pipers ' fifes and reels mixed with ragtime and black scales is a really extraordinary and rich mixture, constantly a reminder of the history of the South.
- There is also an album from Dublin-born uillean piper and tin whistle player, Ronan Browne.
PhrasesBear the consequences of an action or activity that one has enjoyed. we will have to pay the piper, and the price is apt to be a high one Example sentencesExamples - Says Fischer, ‘Corporations that need a CEO badly have to pay the piper.’
- ‘Sorry butthead,’ Armstrong said, ‘your chance to give up is long past, now it's time to pay the piper.’
- Its past time to pay the piper, like responsible adults - - and stop siphoning-off savings of others.
- In any case, if we go too far, we'll pay the piper, won't we?
- Few sensible people dispute the fact that we'll have to pay the piper someday soon for the harm we've wrought upon our environment.
- Some day, some one is going to have to pay the piper.
- In the end, people who earn fixed incomes pay the piper for others to enjoy his music.
- But the rich pay the piper, and no matter who's in the White House, Presidents do dance.
- Tomorrow I pay the piper, I stay home minding what will undoubtedly be an itchy, crabby, ill child.
- We are essentially borrowing from ourselves, but eventually we have to pay the piper through higher taxes.
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