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† strim-stram Obs. [Echoic; cf. strum-strum, and strim-strum (in Eng. Dial. Dict.).] A rude stringed instrument of the guitar kind.
c1730Ramsay Gentleman in Country 82 Your strim⁓strams and your jingling bells. 1771–2Ess. fr. Batchelor (1773) I. 55 The nerves of the one, like the strings of a fiddle, vibrate on the slightest touch; whilst the other's, like the cords of a Strim-stram, scarce bend under the rough hand of a porter. |