Assertion: concertina | /r/CapableOf | stop in the middle of a plaintive note
Facets:
value: automatically
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: In another Naval training ship in a South Carolina harbor, it was noted that after an order was given, ‘away forward down in the recesses of the quarters, a concertina stopped automatically in the middle of a plaintive note, and presently the boys came tumbling up’.60 Concertinas were also played on river vessels; in an investigation following an 1891 collision of two brick barges in a New York City river in which twenty persons drowned, bargeman W.C. Curran allowed that ‘We were playing a concertina in the cabin at the time of the accident’.61