Hautboy

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  • noun. An oboe.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In organ-building, same as oboe, 2.
  • noun. A wind-instrument of wood, sounded through a double reed: in recent use more commonly in the Italian form oboe.
  • noun. In botany, a kind of strawberry, Fragaria elatior, growing in Europe at moderate altitudes.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of oboe.
  • noun. A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior).
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The oboe.
  • noun. A reed stop on an organ giving a similar sound.
  • noun. A tall-growing strawberry, Fragaria elatior, having a musky flavour.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
    • Word Usage
    "In English it becomes hautboy, a wooden musical instrument of two-foot tone, I believe, played with a double reed, an oboe, in fact."
    cross-reference
    hautboy d'amour  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    double reed  double-reed instrument  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    basset oboe  heckelphone  musette pipe  oboe d'amore  oboe da caccia  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    accordian  bagpipe  bodhran  cittern  clarion  
    variant
    oboe  
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