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ˈharp-string
One of the strings of a harp.
c1000Apollonius of Tyre (Th.) 17 He þa hearpe-strengas mid cræfte astirian ongan. c1384Chaucer H. Fame ii. 269 Whan men harpe strynges smyte Whether hyt be moche or lyte Loo with the stroke the ayre to-breketh. c1430Lydg. Hors, Shepe & G. 68 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 17 Of the shepe is cast A-way no thynge..For hapre stryngis his Ropys seruythe Ichoone. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles i. iii, He spoke, and on the harp-strings died The strains. 1833N. Arnott Physics (ed. 5) II. 230 A harp-string, while vibrating as it sounds, appears like a flat transparent riband. |