Concertina

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  • noun. A small instrument with bellows like an accordion but with buttons in place of keys.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A musical instrument invented by Professor Wheatstone, the principle of which is similar to that of the accordion.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
  • noun. Something resembling a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.
  • noun. A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.
  • verb. to become compressed into a shape reminiscent of a concertina
  • verb. to be drawn closer and farther apart repeatedly, or up and down, as if situated on a working concertina's folds
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  • noun. coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle
  • noun. free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds
  • verb. collapse like a concertina
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