Dictionary

barrel organ en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

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.
   • Ragged children played in the road, and an old barrel-organ was grinding out a vulgar tune. 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LXXXIII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
   • 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 VIII):

Forms

Deriveds

barrel organist

Relateds

organ grinder

Synonyms

street organ · roller organ

Translations (61)

bg лате́рна (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · fi posetiivi (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · cs flašinet (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · kk шарманка (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · da lirekasse (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · sh вѐргл (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · es organito (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · pt realejo (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · sh vèrgl (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · pl katarynka (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · mk вергл (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · et leierkast (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · it organetto di Barberia (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · uz sharmanka (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · lt ryla (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · ar أُرْغُن يَدَوِيّ (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · ja 手回しオルガン (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · tr lâterna (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · el λατέρνα (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · ky шарманка (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · ca piano de maneta (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · ko 휴대용 풍금 (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · eo gurdo (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · be катары́нка (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · sk verkeľ (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · tg шарманка (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · et väntorel (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · it organo a rullo (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · hy երգեհոնիկ (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · hy շարմանկա (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · sk verklík (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · be шарма́нка (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · uk шарма́нка (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · ga orgán bairille (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · hu kintorna (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · sv positiv (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · nl draaiorgel (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · it organetto (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · tk şarmanka (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · is lírukassi (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · ka არღანი (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · nn lirekasse (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · ga bairille-orgán (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · cmn 手搖風琴 /手摇风琴 (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · az şarmanka (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · fr orgue de Barbarie (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · lv leijerkaste (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · es organillo (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · yi קאַטערינקע (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · sl lajna (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · de Drehorgel (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · hu verkli (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · uk катери́нка (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · be катры́нка (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · sv vevorgel (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · nb lirekasse (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · el ρομβία (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · ro flașnetă (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · ru шарма́нка (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · cs kolovrátek (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel) · de Leierkasten (pipe instrument with air controlled pins in a revolving barrel)