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单词 harp-string
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harp-stringn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈharp-string.
One of the strings of a harp.
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c1000 Apollonius of Tyre (Thornton) 17 He þa hearpe-strengas mid cræfte astirian ongan.
c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame ii. 269 Whan men harpe strynges smyte Whether hyt be moche or lyte Loo with the stroke the ayre to-breketh.
c1430 J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep 68 in Polit. Relig. & Love Poems 17 Of the shepe is cast A-way no thynge..For hapre stryngis his Ropys seruythe Ichoone.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles i. iii. 9 He spoke, and on the harp-strings died The strains.
1833 N. Arnott Elements Physics (ed. 5) II. 230 A harp-string, while vibrating as it sounds, appears like a flat transparent riband.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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