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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who blows the bellows of an organ; also, a motor or engine for blowing an organ.

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Examples

  • Whereupon little Sloppet, who was organ-blower and verger and beadle and sexton and bell-ringer on

    The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

  • It was certainly an unprecedented circumstance to find choir, congregation, organist, organ-blower, bell-ringer and verger all conspicuous by their absence.

    The Luckiest Girl in the School Angela Brazil 1907

  • The first preliminary notes of the voluntary -- weak and uncertain, because the organ-blower had come late and as yet there was not sufficient wind in the bellows -- were beginning to sound through the building.

    Sally Bishop A Romance 1906

  • Then Alice went round to the back of the organ and addressed the small organ-blower.

    The Three Sisters May Sinclair 1904

  • He went regularly with me to the Church of the Messiah, of which I was pastor, and where I obtained for him the place of organ-blower.

    The story of Archer Alexander : from slavery to freedom, March 30, 1863, 1885

  • Mrs. Sidney Wilson, was organist, and I was organ-blower.

    Some Reminiscences of old Victoria Edgar Fawcett 1885

  • Somebody suggested that perhaps Christopher did not notice his coadjutor's presence in the street; and time proved to the organ-blower that the remark was just.

    The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1884

  • The Sexton, who is also the organ-blower, enters warily.

    Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts August Strindberg 1880

  • Decrepit, misshapen, deaf, diminutive, he lived in Paris about 1839, and was organ-blower and bell-ringer in the church of Saint-Louis en l'Ile.

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

  • I soon discovered my mistake and found him to be train-bearer and organ-blower to a whole procession of people.

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

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