phonograph

  1. Noun.  Literally, a device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.
  2. Noun.  (British, historical) A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.
  3. Noun.  (context, North America) A turntable, especially an early, archaic record player.

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