stringedadj.
/strɪŋd/ 1.
a. Having a string or strings; spec. of musical instruments such as the violin and guitar. Also in parasynthetic combinations, as ten-stringed.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > [adjective]
corded1382
stringed1552
sinewya1593
nervous1601
chordal1619
chorded1687
strung1695
c1000 Lamb. Ps. xci. 4 In decachordo psalterio, on tynstrængedum saltere.
a1300 Early Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter cxliii[i]. 9 To þe sal I sing in ten-strenged sautre.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxliv. 9 That I maye..synge prayses vnto the vpon a tenstrynged lute.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Strynged, chordatus. Strynged as a bowe is, amentatus.
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 276/1 Hasta amentata,..a stringed or looped dart to fling with all.
1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 145 The whole Realme..hath beene scourged with a three stringed whip, Warre, Ill-governement, and Injustice.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxx. ii. 380 The house rung againe with the sound of stringed and wynd instruments.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. xviii. 6 (margin) Three stringed instruments.
1742 G. Berkeley Let. in Wks. (1871) IV. 284 A large four-stringed bass violin.
1752 T. Newton Note Milton's L'Allegro 94 Rebeck is a three-stringed fiddle.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 346/1 Medals..representing Apollo playing on a three-stringed instrument.
1871 D. Cook Nights at the Play (1883) I. 177 The orchestra..is scarcely strong enough in stringed instruments to do full justice to Mr. Sullivan's music.
1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 55 A one-stringed banjo.
b. Heraldry. (See quots.)
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > other heraldic representations > [adjective] > attributes of bugle or horn
stringed1572
viroledc1828
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 123 Two bowes bente addorsed de Or, stringed Vert.
1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xix. 298 A Harp or, stringed argent.
1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) vii. 108 Hunting-horn or Bugle... It is usually blazoned as Stringed, which signifies that it depends from two strings, or ribbons, tied in a knot above.
c. Of a running-track: Divided by stretched strings into separate runs.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [adjective] > of track: divided by stretched strings
stringed1897
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 64/2 [article Athletics] Sprint handicaps run over a stringed track.
2. transferred. Produced by strings or stringed instruments; †made with a rosary or string of beads.
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [adjective] > numbered or reckoned > using beads or rods
stringed1645
rhabdological1825
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [adjective] > sound of stringed instrument
stringed1645
wiry1819
1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn ix, in Poems 5 Divinely-warbled voice Answering the stringed noise.
1655 G. Hall Triumphs of Rome v. 57 Such thraves and lasts of private Oraisons, which without the well-devised helps of stringed calculation, could never keep even reckoning.
1822 P. B. Shelley Zucca 72 Sounds of softest song Mixed with..stringèd melodies.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. xi. 77 Three-deep these march; to the sound of stringed music.
1854 Athenæum 6 May 565/1 Two movements of a stringed Quartett, by Herr von Wilm.
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