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Meanings of mouth organs in English

Russian
губной орган
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Instrument family; any free reed aerophone with one or more air chambers fitted with a free reed.

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        Examples for "mouth organ"
        Examples for "mouth organ"
        1
        Subsequent composers have tended to reach for accordion, mouth organ or zither.
        The Guardian
        2
        Some one further down the trench was playing a mouth organ.
        The Hosts of the Air
        3
        Lulu plays Strauss's Sinfonia Domestica on the mouth organ really screamingly.
        The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta
        4
        But the machine only spoke to him, in a voice like a mouth organ.
        Archer’s Goon
        5
        A twitch in the jaw of the mouth organ man.
        A singular man
        Usage of mouth organs in English
        1
        The boys in the top bunks played mouth organs, and I danced to entertain them.
        The Guardian
        2
        The officers see to it that the mouth organs get tuned up the minute a hike begins.
        A Yankee in the Trenches
        3
        Mandibles, the mouth organs of insects.
        The New McGuffey Fourth Reader
        4
        A ripple of mirth swept along our trench, followed by a rude outburst of mouth organs and laughter.
        Bullets & Billets
        5
        He is 25 and has been blowing mouth organs since he was 7.
        The new yorker
        6
        They may be agreeable and not object to mouth organs and whistling and occasional stone-throwing, or they may not.
        More William
        7
        In 'Kitchener' Ward the men have mouth organs and tin whistles and combs, and play till you're nearly deafened.
        A Patriotic Schoolgirl
        8
        Sounds of mouth organs and concertinas and a wheezing gramaphone came from the Valley where the Senator's cow-boys camped with drovers come up from Arizona.
        The Freebooters of the Wilderness
        9
        Mouth organs made from gourds.
        Anil's ghost
        10
        "They're up in the play-room;-twodrums, two mouth organs and a fife, and a trumpet."
        Christmas with Grandma Elsie
        Translations for mouth organs