A musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers. Synonyms:cither, zithern.
...zither," retorted the chairman, waxing mildly indignant; he meant zithern, but he called it a zither. "A hinstrument well-known to anybody as 'as ... — John Ingerfield and Other Stories • Jerome K. Jerome
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