Xylophone/(إكسيليفون)

An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle. An instrument to determine the vibrative properties of different kinds of wood.

Noun

Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.

Verb

To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone. To move above a ridged surface so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.