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barrel organs

barrel organs is the plural of barrel organ.

Meaning of barrel organ

Noun

barrel organ (plural barrel organs)

  1. A musical instrument in which air from a bellows is admitted to a set of pipes by means of pins inserted into a revolving barrel (typically turned by a crank), originating in France.
    • Poor Mrs. Cranch was bulky, and, breathing asthmatically, had the additional motive for making her remarks unexceptionable and giving them a general bearing, that even her whispers were loud and liable to sudden bursts like those of a deranged barrel-organ.1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to...

Questions about barrel organs

What is barrel organs the plural of?
Barrel organs is the plural of barrel organ.

Words near barrel organs in the dictionary

  1. barrel of monkeys
  2. barrel of sunshine
  3. barrel organ
  4. barrel organist
  5. barrel organists
  6. barrel organs
  7. barrel piano
  8. barrel pianos
  9. barrel plating
  10. barrel process
  11. barrel race

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