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DULCIMER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("dulcimer" is a kind of...):
cither; zither; zithern (a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("dulcimer" is a kind of...):
stringed instrument (a musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound)
