Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A clarichord. Also called dumb spinet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Mus.) The clavichord or clarichord; -- called also dumb spinet.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A clavichord.

Etymologies

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Latin monochordon, from Ancient Greek. So called because it originally had only one string. See monochord.

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