Barrel engine
an engine having cylinders arranged around and parallel to a shaft, which they rotate by means of the contact of their piston rods with a swash plate or cam on the shaft.
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a musical instrument in which air from a bellows is admitted to a set of pipes by means of pins inserted into a revolving barrel; hand organ. historical examples i should like to be a peer who grinds a barrel organ or (better still) a one-time organ-grinder who now lives in park lane. the journal […]