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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A wind instrument of the Renaissance with a curving tube and a double reed.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A medieval musical instrument of the clarinet class, having a curved tube and a melancholy tone.
  2. n. In organ-building, a reed-stop with short, slender metal pipes, and a tone like that of the clarinet. Also called clarinet-stop, cromorna, and corruptly cremona.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a mediaeval and Renaissance wind instrument
  2. n. a stop on an organ

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A reed instrument of music of the cornet kind, now obsolete (see cornet, 1, a.).
  2. n. A reed stop in the organ; -- sometimes called cremona.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn)

Etymologies

  1. German Krummhorn, from krumm ‘crooked’ + Horn ‘horn’. (Wiktionary)
  2. German : krumm, crooked (from Middle High German krump, krum, from Old High German krump) + Horn, horn; see alpenhorn. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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