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REED STOP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An organ stop with the tone of a reed instrument
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("reed stop" is a kind of...):
organ stop (a graduated set of organ pipes of like tone quality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reed stop"):
vox humana (an organ reed stop producing tones imitative of the human voice)