drone pipe

1. 1.

   a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone

   Synonymsdronebourdon

   Broaderpipe

   Part ofbagpipe

Questions about drone pipe

What does drone pipe mean?

drone pipe means "a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone".

What is another word for drone pipe?

Close synonyms include drone, bourdon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drone pipe a common word?

drone pipe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.