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Definition of Grind organ

1. Noun. A musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grind Organ

Literary usage of Grind organ

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. From Alien to Citizen: The Story of My Life in America by Edward Alfred Steiner (1914)
"... almost say: " Once upon a time "—an Italian came to our town with a grind-organ, a monkey, and a parrot. The grind-organ and the monkey performed for ..."

2. Junior High School Literature by William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck (1922)
"EDWARD A. STEINER It seems so long ago that I might almost say, "Once upon a time"— an Italian came to our town with a grind-organ, a monkey, and a parrot. ..."

3. The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton by Isabel Burton (1893)
"But I could not stand a fearful automatic grind- organ, the size of an average clothes-press, which raised its abominable voice immediately after dinner, ..."

4. Round about Rio: A Novel by Frank De Yeaux Carpenter (1884)
""And the grind-organ," added Chester. "Think of having your teeth pulled to the heavenly strains of a grind-organ !" Again the forceps were applied. ..."

5. Festivals and Plays in Schools and Elsewhere by Percival Chubb (1912)
"I «n 1 A most suggestive experiment in New York City was the equipping for ordinary itinerant street use of a grind-organ with the folk-dance tunes used in ..."

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