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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs;
[syn: barrel organ, grind organ, hand organ, hurdy gurdy, hurdy-gurdy, street organ]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hurdy-gurdy \Hur"dy-gur`dy\, n. [Prob. of imitative origin.] 1. A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys. [1913 Webster] 2. In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hurdy-gurdy n 1: a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs [syn: barrel organ, grind organ, hand organ, hurdy gurdy, hurdy-gurdy, street organ]