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Definition of Hand organ

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hand Organ

Literary usage of Hand organ

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

1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... a grinder is to insult another by applying the left thumb to the note and revolving the right hand round it, as if working a hand-organ or coffee- mill. ..."

2. Folio (1884)
"1 believe I am the only hand-organ manufacturer in this country," said the builder, as he lit his little black pipe and blew a cloud of smoke from his lips; ..."

3. The Nursery by Fanny P Seaverns, John L. Shorey (Firm (1874)
"THE HAND-ORGAN MAN. JOSIE is a little boy three years old, who lives in Boston. He has seen the hand-organ men go round the streets, and stop at the doors ..."

4. The Musical World (1870)
"1 looked around me in a fine frenzy, and only then discovered with recognition the strains of the hand-organ whose piercing tones ..."

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