| 释义 |
nag's-head
[? f. nag n.1]
(See quots.)
1855Hopkins Organ xv. §283 The ‘nag's-head swell’, as the above early kind of swell was called, was not well designed. Ibid., The nag's-head swell continued in use for upwards of half a century. 1881Grove's Dict. Mus. III. 489/1 The original organ swell was the ‘nagshead’, a mere shutter, invented by Abraham Jordan in 1712. |