Meaning of musical box | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

Examples

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

“Beneath the clothes [of the poupard] a squeaker would be concealed, and more elaborate ones would have a musical-box, the music being played by twirling the doll around.”

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