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- noun Plural form of
gittern .
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Examples
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And he froze, for there were two sets of packs, and two gitterns.
Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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He laid the chosen lute carefully down on his bunk, and stripped the case from the first of the gitterns.
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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And he froze, for there were two sets of packs, and two gitterns.
Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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He laid the chosen lute carefully down on his bunk, and stripped the case from the first of the gitterns.
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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Buoyant were the violins; sportive the flutes; all alive the gitterns; blithesome the tripping arpeggios that crisply fell from the strings of the joyous harps.
Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham
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There were harps, and fiddles, and gitterns, and psalteries, and lutes and rebecks, and many more that he could not name.
Tales From Scottish Ballads Elizabeth Wilson Grierson 1908
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Been trying gitterns with metal strings, 'stead of gut; you tell me how it came out. "
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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Been trying gitterns with metal strings, 'stead of gut; you tell me how it came out. "
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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4.42.3: Laye downe your lutes and let your gitterns rest,
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