Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In organ-building, the reed-stops of an organ, or of a partial organ, taken collectively: opposed to flue-work.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mus.) A collective name for the reed stops of an organ.

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  • noun The reed stops of an organ.

Etymologies

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reed +‎ work

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Examples

  • Several voices had answered her, but she paid little heed, for there had slipped over her shoulder a brown thin hand holding a cunningly woven closed basket of reedwork.

    The Unspeakable Perk Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

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