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hornpipe

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Hyacinth: [on phone] What do I know about sailors? Well, they travel about on ships, dance the hornpipe, tie knots in things...

BBC. Keeping Up Appearances: The Commodore (1993)
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Ah, it's a fine dance—I'm with you there—and looks mighty like a hornpipe in a rope's end at Execution Dock by London town, it does.

Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1882)
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Windrip danced a hornpipe before an alarmed academic audience when he got his first honorary degree;

Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here
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Mr. Wopsle, conceding his fin with a gracious dignity, was immediately shoved into a dusty corner, while everybody danced a hornpipe;

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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