A rustic musical instrument made of a stalk of corn.

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1549.  Compl. Scot., vi. 42. I beheld mony … hirdis blauuand ther buc hornis and ther corne pipis. Ibid., vi. 65. The thrid playit on ane trump, the feyrd on ane corne pipe.

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a. 1740.  Tickell, Kensington Garden, 319, in Wks. (1796?), 50 (J.).

          Now the shrill cornpipes, echoing loud to arms,
To rank and file reduce the straggling swarms.

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  fig.  1828.  Carlyle, Goethe’s Helena, Misc. I. 132. And so on, through all the variations of the critical corn-pipe.

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