gittern
/ˈɡɪtəːn
/noun historical
A lute-like medieval stringed instrument, forerunner of the guitar.A gittern, most musicologists have come to agree, was the earliest form of what we know today as a guitar....
- There is definite documentary evidence that both the citole and the gittern were normally strung in gut.
- For additional information about gitterns, visit the Gittern section of the Early String Instruments page.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French guiterne; perhaps related to cittern and guitar.
Rhymes
- well-willer
- well-willing
- well-winded
- well-windowed
- well-winged
- well-winnowed
- well-wired
- well wish
- well-wished
- well-wisher
- well-wishing
- well-witted
- well woman
- well-won
- well-wooded
- well-woolled
- well-worded
- well-worked
- well working
- well worn
- well worship
- well-worshipping
- well worth
- well worthy
- well-woven