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orgue.

Any of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.

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Meaning & usage

noun
  1. Any of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.

  2. A piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously.

Where this word comes from

From French orgue, from Latin organum (“organ, instrument, tool”), from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “organ, instrument, tool”). Doublet of organ, organon, and organum.

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