Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In organ-building, a stop having wooden pipes in the form of an inverted pyramid, about four times as large at the top as below, and giving very deep tones somewhat like those of a stopped diapason.

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  • May I trouble you to pass me the pyramidon what-not from that table ...

    Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

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