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▪ I. † ventil1 Obs.—1
[ad. med.L. ventile: see next. So OF. ventelle, -aille.]
A sluice.
1570Dee Math. Pref. d ij, All occasions of waters possible leading. To speake of the allowance of the Fall..or of the Ventills (if the waters labour be farre, and great) I neede not.
▪ II. ventil2 Mus.|ˈvɛntɪl|
[a. G. ventil, ad. med.L. ventile sluice, shutter, f. L. vent-us wind.]
1. One or other of the valves or shutters which control the wind-supply of the various groups of stops in an organ.
1876J. Hiles Catech. Organ vii. (1878) 50 A Ventil, or Wind-trunk valve is a valve in the wind-trunk for..stopping the wind from certain stops in the manuals or pedals, and thus making them silent. 1884Encycl. Brit. XVII. 835 Practical opinion appears decidedly to condemn the use of ventils.
attrib.1876Nature XIV. 275/1 The French ventil system of shutting off or bringing on the wind to a complete..group of stops by the depression of a pedal.
2. (See quot.)
1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 446/1 Ventil, a valve, by means of which brass tubes may be made to sound the semitones and tones between the natural open harmonics. |