Musical box
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 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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More examples"There was a battered brass speaking-trumpet, very discoloured, a tambourine, a musical-box, and a number of smaller objects."