Usually means: Mechanical musical instrument, organ pipes.
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  1. barrel organ: Merriam-Webster
  2. barrel organ: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barrel organ: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. barrel organ: Collins English Dictionary
  5. barrel organ: Vocabulary.com
  6. barrel-organ, barrel organ: Wordnik
  7. barrel organ: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. barrel organ: Wiktionary
  9. barrel organ: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. barrel organ: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Barrel organ, barrel organ: Dictionary.com
  12. Barrel-organ, Barrel organ, The Barrel Organ: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. barrel organ: Rhymezone
  14. barrel organ: FreeDictionary.org
  15. barrel organ: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. barrel organ: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. barrel organ: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Barrel-organ, barrel organ: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (barrel organ)

noun:  A musical instrument in which air from a bellows is admitted to a set of pipes by means of pins inserted into a revolving barrel (typically turned by a crank), originating in France.

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