Definition of phonographs:
(n) :
(Canada, US, historical) A record player.
(n) :
(British, historical) A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.
(n) :
A device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.
(v) :
(transitive, dated) To record for playback by phonograph.
(v) :
(transitive, dated) To transcribe into phonographic symbols.
(n) :
(dated) A character or symbol used to represent a sound, especially one used in phonography.