1. A stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings 
2. A trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers

Derived forms: dulcimers

Type of: cither, stringed instrument, zither, zithern

Encyclopedia: Dulcimer

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