Concertina

Definitions

1. A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
2. Something multiply folded like a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.
3. Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.
4. A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.

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Examples

“That concertina was a wonder⟳ in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.”

“Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host⟳ of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.”

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