Meanings
nounorgan pipe (plural organ pipes)
plural organ pipes
- A tuned metal or wooden tube connected mechanically or electrically to an organ console.
In an inner mountain land where none hath come he hath carved his organ pipes out of the mountains, and there when the winds, his servants, come in from all the world he maketh the melody of Limpang-Tung.
1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 24
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
Translations
Chinese 風琴管 /风琴管
- 風琴管 /风琴管tube part of an organ (instrument)
Dutch orgelpijp
- orgelpijptube part of an organ (instrument)
Polish piszczałka organowa
- piszczałka organowatube part of an organ (instrument)
Russian органная труба
- органная труба (organnaja truba)tube part of an organ (instrument)
Spanish tubo de órgano
- tubo de órganotube part of an organ (instrument)
Swedish orgelpipa
- orgelpipatube part of an organ (instrument)
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Chicago
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