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Definition of Orgue
1. n. Any one of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.
Definition of Orgue
1. a multi-barreled weapon [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orgue
Literary usage of Orgue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians by Theodore Baker (1919)
"—Writings: Études expérimentales sur les tuyaux d'orgue (Report for thé Académie
des Sciences, 1849); De l'orgue et de son -architecture ('Revue générale de ..."
2. The Organ: Writings and Other Utterances on Its Structure, History, Procural by John Watson Warman (1898)
"For the Pneumatic Motors turn to Head orgue DU PALAIS .... AMSTERDAM. ...
By Aristide Cavaillé-Coll : sec with his DE L'orgue [I]. In French. ..."
3. Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of Music by William Smythe Babcock Mathews, Emil Liebling (1896)
"orgue (örg), Fr. An organ. orgue de salon (örg ... ( A portable organ, a barrel
organ, a street organ. orgue positif (örg ..."
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