"I cannot mend the gittern, but I can refill the gipsire," said Marmaduke.
Mr Galpin places the citole in the same class as the gittern.
At the end of the arbor some one was strumming upon a gittern.
A viol overhead took up the time, the gittern struck a few sharp notes.
And as for my gittern being tuneless, I've heard you tell a different tale, pretty Mistress Marguerite.
In his hands was a gittern which had been hanging on the wall above him, and he played upon it, softly, a sweet and plaintive air.
He hung the gittern upon its peg, then went across to the Admiral and put both hands upon his shoulders.
late 14c., from Old French guiterne, from Latin cithara, from Greek kithara (see guitar).