piper

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pip·er /ˈpaɪpə $ -ər/ noun [countable]  APMsomeone who plays a pipe or the bagpipes 吹笛人；风笛吹奏者

Examples from the Corpus

piper• And like a piper, Horton led the two little by little into the world of dance.• There are pipers here going up and down.• The Sergeant was a very good piper and would have gone on all night.• Banquet-goers were treated to a march past of pipers during the reception.• Above the marble mantlepiece in Lennox Berkeley's study hangs and eighteenth-century mirror ornamented with gilded Pan pipers.• Bagpipes are considered family heirlooms and the pipers provide their own.• The man who pays the piper does his best to call the tune.• But not a day goes by, since June, that the piper isn't paid.

pip·er nounChineseSyllable  

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piper
pip‧er /ˈpaɪpə $ -ər/ noun [countable]
someone who plays a pipe or the bagpipes

piperBrE /ˈpaɪpə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈpaɪpər/ 🔊 nouna person who plays music on a pipe or the bagpipes 吹笛者；风笛吹奏者●he who pays the piper calls the ˈtune(saying) the person who provides the money for sth can also control how it is spent 花钱的人说了算；财大者气粗