单词 | hand organ |
释义 | hand organn. A portable barrel organ operated by means of a crank turned by hand; a hurdy-gurdy. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > musical box > [noun] > barrel-organ hand organ1721 street organ1769 barrel organ1772 music box1773 grinding-organ1801 panharmonicon1811 flute-organ1828 orchestrino1838 orchestrion1838 organ1841 piano organ1842 autophone1850 grind-organ1888 1721 Evening Post 25 Feb. To be Sold by Auction... China, fine Antique Fire-Arms, a hand Organ, [etc.]. 1746 J. Kirkby Capacity & Extent Human Understanding (ed. 2) 161 This supposed Box..was an Hand Organ, set to a solemn Air. 1787 W. Beckford Jrnl. 11 Oct. in Jrnl. Portugal & Spain (1954) (modernized text) 223 Pierrot brings in a machine like a hand-organ and his master begins to grind, the music accompanying. 1847 J. Gould Birds Austral. (1848) II. Pl. 48 It pours forth a succession of notes..much resembling..a hand-organ out of tune. 1892 G. S. Layard Life & Lett. C. S. Keene i. 8 A hand-organ turned with might and main by the baby sister. 1925 W. Faulkner Let. Feb. in Thinking of Home (1992) 181 I spend..the afternoons walking around, watching the kids around the hand-organs in the parks. 1984 G. Sandler Baltimore Glimpses Revisited 179 Luciano is again grinding out ‘Whispering’ on his hand organ. 2010 J. Zeigelman 97 Orchard v. 188 The hand organ worked like an oversized music box, with a rotating cylinder inside it that turned by means of a crank. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1721 |
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