Musical box

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various devices that play tunes by means of pins, on a rotating disk or revolving drum, that strike or pluck metal teeth; a music box.

    "There was a battered brass speaking-trumpet, very discoloured, a tambourine, a musical-box, and a number of smaller objects."

  2. 2
    produces music by means of pins on a revolving cylinder that strike the tuned teeth of a comb-like metal plate wordnet

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"There was a battered brass speaking-trumpet, very discoloured, a tambourine, a musical-box, and a number of smaller objects."