musical box

English

Noun

musical box (plural musical boxes)

  1. (music) Any of various devices that play tunes by means of pins, on a rotating disk or revolving drum, that strike or pluck metal teeth; a music box.
    • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
      There was a battered brass speaking-trumpet, very discoloured, a tambourine, a musical-box, and a number of smaller objects.

Translations
music box — see music box
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