pipe major

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   the chief piper in a band of bagpipes

   Broaderpiper

Questions about pipe major

What does pipe major mean?

pipe major means "the chief piper in a band of bagpipes".

Is pipe major a common word?

pipe major 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.