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hydraulus

[ hahy-draw-luhs ]

noun

, plural hy·drau·li [hahy-, draw, -lahy], hy·drau·lus·es.
  1. a pipe organ of ancient Greece and Rome using water pressure to maintain the air supply.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hydraulus1

1870–75; < Latin < Greek hýdraulos water organ, equivalent to hydr- hydr- 1 + aulós pipe
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Example Sentences

The first mechanical pipe organ, a water-driven monster called a hydraulus, so awed the ancients that they enshrined it in a temple of Venus.

They called it an hydraulus because air was fed into its pipes by a water contrivance.

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