Usually means: Medieval precursor to the guitar.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. gittern: Merriam-Webster
  2. gittern: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gittern: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gittern: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gittern: Vocabulary.com
  6. gittern: Wordnik
  7. gittern: Wiktionary
  8. gittern: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. gittern: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. gittern: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Gittern, gittern: Dictionary.com
  12. Gittern: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Gittern: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. gittern: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. gittern: Rhymezone
  16. Gittern: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. gittern: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. gittern: FreeDictionary.org
  19. gittern: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. gittern: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gittern: Classical Music Guide
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gittern: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gittern)

noun:  A small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, most commonly with three to four strings in doubles courses; it is a flat-backed predecessor of the guitar, and it originated around the 13th century, coming to Europe via Moorish Spain.
verb:  To play on the gittern.

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