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Concertina   /kɑnsərtˈinə/   Listen
Concertina

verb
1.
Collapse like a concertina.





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"Concertina" Quotes from Famous Books



... himself from his precarious position will never be known, as, at this juncture, Ben and La Salle, respectively, weary of playing a limited repertoire of psalm-tunes on the concertina, and reading the musty records of a long-forgotten "Sederunt of the quarterly Synod," as detailed in an old number of the Presbyterian Witness, interrupted the prolonged passage at arms by an invitation, to all so disposed, "to take a walk around ...
— Adrift in the Ice-Fields • Charles W. Hall
... into the palanquin, steppin' on me right ear wid me left foot, an' thin I slept like the dead. Wanst I half roused, an' begad the noise in my head was tremenjus—roarin' and rattlin' an' poundin', such as was quite new to me. "Mother av Mercy," thinks I, "phwat a concertina I will have on my shoulders whin I wake!" An' wid that I curls mysilf up to sleep before ut should get hould on me. Bhoys, that noise was not dhrink, 'twas ...
— Soldier Stories • Rudyard Kipling


Words linked to "Concertina" :   collapse, free-reed instrument, barbwire, barbed wire, bandoneon


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