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n. The drone pipe of a bagpipe.

n. The bass string, as of a violin.

n. An organ stop, commonly of the 16-foot pipes, medium in scale but with dark timbre.

n. The burden or bass of a melody.

n. The drone pipe of a bagpipe.

n. The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.

n. The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.

n. A large, low-pitched bell not part of a diatonically tuned ring of bells.

n. A bumblebee.

n. A pilgrim's staff.

n. A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See burden (of a song.)

n. A kind of organ stop.

n. A staff used by pilgrims in the middle ages.

n. A baton or cantoral staff.

n. A plain thick silver wand used as a badge of office.

n. A lance used in the just. See lance.

n. In heraldry, a pilgrim's staff used as a bearing.

n. In music: The drone of a bagpipe, or a monotonous and repetitious ground-melody. See burden.

n. An organ-stop, usually of 16-feet tone, the pipes of which are generally made of wood, and produce hollow, smooth tones, deficient in harmonics and easily blended with other tones.

In music, to drone, as an instrument during a pause in singing.

n. In the hurdy-gurdy, the lowest open string, usually tuned to the C below middle C or to the G below that.

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

""In regard to the word bourdon, why it has been applied to a pilgrim's staff, it is not easy to guess."

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