We found 25 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word hurdy-gurdy:
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 General (21 matching dictionaries)
- hurdy-gurdy: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- hurdy-gurdy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- hurdy-gurdy: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
- hurdy-gurdy: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- hurdy-gurdy: Wordnik [home, info]
- hurdy-gurdy: Wiktionary [home, info]
- hurdy-gurdy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- hurdy-gurdy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- hurdy-gurdy: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- Hurdy-gurdy, hurdy-gurdy: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- hurdy-gurdy: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- Hurdy-Gurdy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- Hurdy-gurdy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- hurdy-gurdy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- Hurdy-gurdy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- hurdy-gurdy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- Hurdy-gurdy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
- Hurdy-Gurdy: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
- hurdy-gurdy: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- hurdy-gurdy: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- hurdy-gurdy: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
Art (2 matching dictionaries)
- Hurdy-gurdy: Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary [home, info]
- Hurdy-gurdy: SimplyTheBest Music Glossary [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- hurdy-gurdy: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Tech (1 matching dictionary)
- hurdy-gurdy: Rane Professional Audio Reference [home, info]
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Quick definitions (hurdy-gurdy)
(n.) A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys.
(n.) In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet.
(This definition is from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary and may be outdated.)
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