strummern.
/ˈstrʌmə/, U.S. /ˈstrəmər/ One who strums.
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1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Strummer of wire, a player on any instrument strung with wire.
1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun (new ed.) iv. 87 A cat-gut strummer.
1831 T. B. Macaulay in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) I. iv. 206 Pianoforte-strumming by the first pianoforte-strummer in England.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iv. xl. 324 Thirty-five pounds a-year, and extra pay for teaching the smallest strummers at the piano.
1895 K. Grahame Golden Age 89 The pure, absolute quality and nature of each note in itself are only appreciated by the strummer.
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