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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The stop of an organ. See organ and stop.

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Examples

  • The piano-black trim on the steering wheel, the faux Bakelite, the chrome key window switches and organ-stop vent pulls, the frosted glass around the iDrive indicators, leather and veneers galore.

    Rolls-Royce Builds a Real Car Dan Neil 2010

  • The piano-black trim on the steering wheel, the faux Bakelite, the chrome key window switches and organ-stop vent pulls, the frosted glass around the iDrive indicators, leather and veneers galore.

    Rolls-Royce Builds a Real Car Dan Neil 2010

  • The piano-black trim on the steering wheel, the faux Bakelite, the chrome key window switches and organ-stop vent pulls, the frosted glass around the iDrive indicators, leather and veneers galore.

    Rolls-Royce Builds a Real Car Dan Neil 2010

  • The piano-black trim on the steering wheel, the faux Bakelite, the chrome key window switches and organ-stop vent pulls, the frosted glass around the iDrive indicators, leather and veneers galore.

    Rolls-Royce Builds a Real Car20% Dan Neil 2010

  • Besides, he will at once be transformed from a human being into an organ-stop or something of the sort; for what is a man without desires, without free will and without choice, if not a stop in an organ?

    Notes from Underground 2003

  • The operation of these "capital" and "small-capital keys" is similar to that of an organ-stop in modifying the effect of other keys.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

  • Each one corresponds to what is termed an organ-stop.

    Musical Memories Saint-Saens, Camille 1919

  • Besides, he will at once be transformed from a human being into an organ-stop or something of the sort; for what is a man without desires, without free will and without choice, if not a stop in an organ?

    Notes from the Underground 1918

  • Each one corresponds to what is termed an organ-stop.

    Musical Memories Camille Saint-Sa��ns 1878

  • Besides, he will at once be transformed from a human being into an organ-stop or something of the sort; for what is a man without desires, without free will and without choice, if not a stop in an organ?

    Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1851

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