steel guitar

steel guitar

n.1. An acoustic guitar with a metal resonator built into the body, often played with a slide and producing a twangy, variable tone.2. See Hawaiian guitar.

steel guitar

n (Instruments) See Hawaiian guitar, pedal steel guitar

steel′ guitar′

n. 1. an acoustic, hand-held guitar having a metal resonator and producing a wailing, variable sound. 2. pedal steel guitar. 3. Hawaiian guitar. [1925–30]

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steel guitar - guitar whose steel strings are twanged while being pressed with a movable steel bar for a glissando effectHawaiian guitarguitar - a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking