Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In organ-building, a reed-stop, or set of pipes with reeds, giving a tone like that of a clarinet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mus.) A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe.

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  • noun An organ's reed stop of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe.

Etymologies

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French cromorne, from German Krummhorn ("crooked horn, cornet, an organ pipe turned like a trumpet").

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