Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any one of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.
- noun A piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously.
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- noun military Any of a number of long, thick pieces of
timber , pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over agateway , to be let down in case of attack. - noun military A piece of
ordnance , consisting of a number ofmusket barrels arranged so that amatch ortrain may connect with all theirtouchholes , and adischarge be secured almost or quite simultaneously.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The prelude at Solemn Mass this Sunday is the Prélude from Suite pour orgue, Op. 5, by Maurice Duruflé 1902-1986.
A "Music at St. Mary's" note bls 2009
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The prelude at Solemn Mass this Sunday is the Prélude from Suite pour orgue, Op. 5, by Maurice Duruflé 1902-1986.
Archive 2009-08-01 bls 2009
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Generally, to throw listeners off the track, slang confines itself to adding to all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a termination in aille, in orgue, in iergue, or in uche.
Les Miserables 2008
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The programme comprised also an improvisation on the orgue expressif
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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Generally, to throw listeners off the track, slang confines itself to adding to all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a termination in aille, in orgue, in iergue, or in uche.
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Generally, to throw listeners off the track, slang confines itself to adding to all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a termination in aille, in orgue, in iergue, or in uche.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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I heard him improvise on the _orgue expressif_, and afterward on a great organ which has just been built here by Cavaille for the cathedral of Ajaccio.
At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Margaret Fuller 1830
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You may logically orgue that this is not your responsibility and government should take action on any of these.
rediff.com 2009
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I attended with some positive anticipation, because the Poulenc Concerto, along with the Camille Saint-Sa'ns Symphony No. 3 avec orgue (with organ), have always seemed highly imaginative examples of gifted composers managing to craft beautiful and meaningful, even reflective statements for the mighty and potentially overpowering instrument.
unknown title 2009
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All his life he has remained faithful to his admiration of Liszt -- since 1858, when he dedicated a _Veni Creator_ to "the Abbé Liszt," until 1886, when, a few months after Liszt's death, he dedicated his masterpiece, the _Symphonic avec orgue_, "To the memory of Franz Liszt." [
Musicians of To-Day Romain Rolland 1905
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