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Gittern has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings

2

A small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, most commonly with three to four strings in doubles courses; it is a flat-backed predecessor of the guitar, and it originated around the 13th century, coming to Europe via Moorish Spain.

Verb
1

To play on the gittern.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
guitar
Rhyming Words
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