hornpipe

Converse of object

• dance: Cinema-goers in Oxford cheered when the result was flashed on the screens, and fans danced a hornpipe of delight at Carfax.
• play: There was an old man who could tap dance and he taught my brother how to play a hornpipe so that he could dance.
• lilt: There are lilting hornpipes, exciting jigs and reels, along with some slow and haunting tunes.

Modifies a noun

• step: Hornpipe Step dance, now most often associated with sailors.
• figure: The set is danced fairly high on the ball of the foot, the heel being little used for support until the Hornpipe figure.
• rhythm: A quick word about hornpipes The hornpipe rhythm is useful to illustrate one more way abc allows the notation of notes of differing length.
• tune: The York Waits seem to have chosen a hornpipe tune, which was printed in broadsides, with words by Mr. Durden.
• style: Honeyman also claims that single stroke bowing with the normal up and down pattern reversed is an important feature of the Newcastle hornpipe style.

Noun used with modifier

• style: Several English fiddlers have been recorded using this pattern, on undotted as well as on Newcastle style hornpipes.