plectron
noun
plectra
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pluralof plectron.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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pluralof plectrum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
plectrumnouna small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
Example Sentences
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Implements less developed belong to a separate order of sound-producing contrivances, namely plectra, and may be described as permitting strumming by striking in place of twanging or twitching the strings.
From The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by George Hart
Each of these jacks has two plectra, one pointing to the right and one to the left.
From Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries by John D. Shortridge
Master Jones, who roared as loud as ten thousand men when he was hurt; or as you vill roar if I catch you calling him Mars again?—Ares, who covered seven plectra of ground?
From The Caxtons — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
It is made of seven or eight hard- wood slats, pinned with bamboo tacks to transverse banana trunks lying on the ground: like the grande caisse, it is played upon with sticks, plectra like tent-pegs.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The direction in which the plectra of each row of jacks should be pointing is not known.
From Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries by John D. Shortridge
