OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 21345

concertina

/ˌkɒnsəˈtiːnə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acordeón • concertina
A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering…
That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more pl…
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