hand organ

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   a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs

   Synonymsbarrel organgrind organ

   Broadermusical instrument

   music

Questions about hand organ

What does hand organ mean?

hand organ means "a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs".

What is another word for hand organ?

Close synonyms include barrel organ, grind organ. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hand organ a common word?

hand organ is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.