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cither

British  
/ ˈsɪθə /

noun

  1. variants of cittern

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of cither

C17: from Latin cithara, from Greek kithara lyre


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Musical Never has cither a jot or tittle of Jewish ritual been discarded without a struggle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Children are cither too young to get the point or old enough to know better.

From Time Magazine Archive

I will sing you something with my cither.

From Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian by Various

The dew! for its want an oak will wither— By the dull hoof into the dust is trod, And then who strikes the cither?

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

The stranger was, it was soon seen, a powerful vessel, cither a large corvette or a small frigate, against which the heavily-rigged, ill-manned and slightly-armed merchant ship, had scarcely a chance.

From Paul Gerrard The Cabin Boy by William Henry Giles Kingston

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