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Concertina meaning
A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends. | Something multiply folded like a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together. | Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.
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Chemnitzer concertina main Various German concertina systems share common construction features and core button layout.
Concertina main When push-points are absent, but there is not enough space to use sidewinding because of lateral constraints, such as in tunnels, snakes rely on concertina locomotion.
A Department of Public Safety Trooper is parked near concertina wire set up along the Rio Grande close to the Texas-New Mexico border in El Paso on Tuesday.
Chain link fence and concertina wire surrounds a deserted guard tower within Joint Task Force Guantanamo's Camp Delta at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba March 21, 2016.
In Jessie Fuentes’ hometown of Eagle Pass, he sees concertina wire and a floating barrier outfitted with serrated blades on the river where he grew up.
He said: "Maggie’s and Cancer Support have helped me on my cancer journey and I thought it would be nice if they could benefit from the sale of the concertina which had been lying in the loft gathering dust.
It is a very, very, very difficult situation,” said Ardovino, who pays for private fencing topped by concertina wire to route migrants around a restaurant and vintage aluminum trailers that he rents to overnight guests.
Migrants trying to cut a hole in the concertina wire fence that has been constructed along the border in Ciudad Juárez.
Razor and concertina wire, installed by the Texas National Guard, is placed in Shelby Park at the U.S.-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, January 16, 2024.
The Biden administration has sued Texas to prevent SB 4 from going into effect and let Border Patrol agents cut through the concertina wire to arrest migrants who have already crossed the river.
The ruling was issued 13 months after the Biden administration after it destroyed concertina wire barriers it erected on state land.
One year on, this is Gupkar road today – police vehicles opposite our gates, concertina wire strung across the road at regular intervals & no vehicles allowed.
This is why, when on March 22, as concertina rolls were strung across roads in Jammu & Kashmir’s capital Srinagar, and police vehicles issued stay-at-home orders, people effortlessly adhered.
It’s them (India) versus us,” said Masarat Jan, her daughter clinging to her tightly as they maneuvered around concertina wire.
John Rood, the Pentagon’s undersecretary for policy, said that the military has freed up Border Patrol agents by putting troops at 22 ports of entry and installing 70 miles of concertina wire.
One of the officials said DHS wants the military to put up concertina wire as barriers along 160 miles of border.
He draws his audiences into the history and context of the songs he sings, and encourages listeners to sing along on choruses as he accompanies himself on guitar, banjo, English concertina and button accordion.
Honduran migrant Ana Zúñiga, 23, told the AP she saw migrants open a small hole in concertina wire at a gap on the Mexican side of a levee, at which point US agents fired teargas at them.
You can even find a concertina and a hurdy-gurdy in your inventory, which you can play if you want to contribute to the game’s soundscape.
German or Anglo-German concertinas were regarded as a lower-class instrument, and English concertina had an air of bourgeois respectability.