gramophone

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A record player; a phonograph.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An instrument for permanently recording and reproducing sounds by means of a tracing made on the principle of the phonautogram and etched into some solid material. A clean metallic or vitreous surface is covered with a delicate etching-ground, and upon this is traced a phonautographic record; the surface is then subjected to the action of an etching-agent, which eats the record-lines into it. (See phonautograph.) Erom these etched lines the sound is reproduced by means of a stylus attached to any sonorous body. The instrument was invented by E. Berliner

Wiktionary

1. n. A historic wind-up record player that acoustically reproduces sound from a disk rather than a cylinder record.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. An instrument for recording, preserving, and reproducing sounds, the record being a tracing of a phonautograph etched in some solid material. Reproduction is accomplished by means of a system attached to an elastic diaphragm. This older term is almost completely replaced for modern devices by the word phonograph (or hi-fi), and technological changes have made the term sound antiquated, and it is usually used to refer to older non-electronic versions of the phonograph.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically