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Meanings of barrel organ in English
Portuguese
realejo Catalan
orgue de maneta A musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs.
Usage of barrel organ in English
1
He stole my rhythms and set them for the barrel organ.
2
The husband, quite depressed, admitted that it reminded him of a barrel organ.
3
Then a barrel organ starts up and the spell is broken.
4
Somebody found a barrel organ and everyone danced to it in the yard.
5
Profanity oozes from him like music from a barrel organ.
6
A barrel organ outside was playing a music hall ditty.
7
It's quite an art to turn a barrel organ.
8
Never since I played the barrel organ all the way down Regent Street have I-
9
Lepailleur impudently growled ignoble threats, which fortunately were lost amid the strains of a barrel organ.
10
The little girl strapped into the barrel organ stood frozen, the crank at rest on the upswing.
11
The little girl had unbuckled herself out of the barrel organ and it clattered wheezing to the floor.
12
Farther on, he came on a young man who was grinding some very feeling ballads upon a barrel organ.
13
The barrel organ was groaning and creaking and the bear with tongue aloll was revolving heavily on the boards.
14
It had none of the ravishing melody of our ancient pipes, but only the tinkle of a modern, foreign barrel organ.
15
He procured an old barrel organ somewhere, and would enter her apartments playing it and singing in a hoarse, grating voice.
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See photos of the Star Wars Lego barrel organ, as well as videos of it in action, in the gallery above.
Translations for barrel organ
Portuguese
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