plectron

American  

[plek-tron] / ˈplɛk trɒn /

noun

• plectra
  plural

1. plectrum.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• plectra
  plural

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plectron plectra

We do not make Mantic either godless or void of reason, when we give it the soul of man as its material, and the enthusiastic spirit and exhalation as its tool or plectron.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)

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 Hart, George

The plectra nearest the keyboard points the same way whether the jack is upside down or not.

From Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries by Shortridge, John D.

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

These erected scales act on the string like so many infinitesimal plectra and thus produce in perfection the sustained sound attempted in a grosser manner by the tremolo of the mandoline.

From The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. by Saint-George, Henry

But they were the kind you would have expected Nero's soldiers to be, and the arms they carried were zithers and plectra, masks and buskins.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 5, Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form By Herbert Baldwin Foster by Foster, Herbert Baldwin