Concertina is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONCERTINA in dictionary:

VERB:
• to fold up like a pair of bellows
• collapse like a concertina
• to fold up like a concertina
NOUN:
• opening or closing in multiple folds
• a small musical instrument played by stretching and squeezing a central bellows between the hands to blow air over reeds, each note being sounded by a button.
• extend, compress, or collapse in folds like those of a concertina
• a (usu hexagonal) musical instrument consisting of a pair of bellows
• 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.
• coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle
• free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a musical instrument of the accordion family

Words related to CONCERTINA

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Words that contain CONCERTINA

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How to use CONCERTINA in a sentence

• So I the Concertina try, As valued friends advise me.
• Besides the six mournful concertina airs, the dentist knew one song.
• One Wednesday afternoon in the second week in March McTeague came over to call on Trina, bringing his concertina with him, as was his custom nowadays.
• From time to time McTeague played his six mournful airs upon his concertina.
• After a while he had taken down his concertina and played upon it the six very mournful airs that he knew.
• Throughout that little suite could be heard but two sounds, the lugubrious strains of the concertina and the noise of stifled weeping.
• But the concertina still continued to wail and lament.
• The concertina would bring quite a sum, and the bird cage is as good as new.
• But he could no longer play his six lugubrious airs upon his concertina, and it was a deprivation.
• Once, even, the dentist had taken a concertina from the lot kept by the music store.
• The clerk had told him the concertina had been sold on Polk Street to the second-hand store there.
• Then there was more concertina playing, and another demand for a song.
• One of them appeared to know a hymn with a chorus, another played the concertina, while a third accompanied with a step dance.
• A minute later he ran out of the house with a concertina.
• I saw one year a poor blind lad of about eighteen sitting on a wall by the wayside at Varese, playing the concertina with his whole body, and snorting like a child.
• He might as well have tried to make a silk hat out of a concertina.
• He opened this case, which was not locked, and drew from it a concertina, all inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
• Finally he adjusted his little hands to the straps of the concertina.
• Then, with a cough, he resumed the concertina once more, and embarked upon the interpretation of Handel.
• He abandoned the concertina gently, caressing it into its leather shell.
• The men had brought their own music in the shape of a concertina, which passed from hand to hand and with which they all seemed on equally friendly terms.
• At length we find a thing like a large concertina which is really a folding bed with pillows and blankets, complete.

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