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Plectrum

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pickverbA tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
plectronnoun(music) Alternative form of plectrum. [(music) A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.]

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plectronnoun(music) Alternative form of plectrum. [(music) A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.]
picknounA tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
plectrenoun(obsolete, music) Synonym of plectrum.
guitar picknoun(music) A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
quillnounA pen made from a feather.
fescuenounA hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca.
pegboxnoun(music, lutherie) The part of a violin or similar stringed instrument that holds the tuning pegs.
pleytnoun(nautical, archaic) A riverboat.
thumbpicknoun(music) A type of plectrum that clips on to, or wraps around the end of the thumb.
plicanounA fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue.
plexinoun(informal) A Plexiglas guitar.
fingerpicknounA type of plectrum that clips on to, or wraps around the end of the fingers and thumb.
philomelnoun(poetic) The nightingale.
plumeletnounA small plume.
zithernoun(music) A musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings placed on a horizontal surface, played with a plectrum or fingertips.
tiplenoun(music) Any of several kinds of small, plucked stringed-instrument of the guitar family, used in the traditional musics of Spain and various Latin American nations.
string platenoun(music) A metal plate bearing the spring-block of a pianoforte.
lutenounA fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
strillersnoun(Polari) A musician.
plucknoun(informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

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