Thesaurus: cittern
An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.
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- n. An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.
- n. a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings
- An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. [Written also cithern.] Shak. Note: Not to be confounded with zither.
- An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire andplayed with a quill or plectrum. [Written also cithern.] Shak.
- n a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings