English words for 'A maker of harps'
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- a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade
- a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
- a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers
- (Scotland) A grain sieve.
- (music) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
- Ellipsis of harp seal.
- Any instrument of the same musicological type.
- A harmonica.
- A struck tuned percussion instrument of metal or wooden bars, especially as a function of a theatre organ.
- The component of a lamp to which one attaches the lampshade, consisting of a lightweight frame that usually surrounds the bulb with an attachment at the top for the finial.
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- a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment
- (music) An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.
- A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical.
- Any instrument of the same musicological classification; any yoke lute.
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- (countable) An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
- A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca.
- (countable) A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
- (countable) The style of a sundial.
- grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns
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- A surname originating as an occupation for a player of the harp.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- An unincorporated community in Ross County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Logan County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Southworth census-designated place, Kitsap County, Washington.
- A census-designated place in Malheur County, Oregon.
- A ghost town in Carbon County and Duchesne County, Utah.
- A rural community of Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
- A city in Harper County, Kansas, named after Sgt. Marion Harper.
- An unincorporated community in Albany County, Wyoming.
- An unincorporated community in Magoffin County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Ogle County, Illinois.
- A town in Maryland County, Liberia, named after Robert Goodloe Harper.
- An unincorporated community in St. Clair County, Missouri.
- A minor city in Keokuk County, Iowa.
- An unincorporated community in Decatur County, Indiana.
- A census-designated place in Gillespie County, Texas.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
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- The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
- (nautical) The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
- (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
- (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
- (by extension) A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae.
- The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
- (zoology) Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.
- (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
- The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
- The bottom of a furrow.
- (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
- (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
- (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
- right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European
- lean flesh of any of several flatfish
- the underside of the foot
- the underside of footwear or a golf club
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- A harp seal.
- A raccoon oyster.
- Any of various creatures having a saddle-shaped marking on the back.
- A variety of domestic goose.
- (architecture) A coping that is thicker in the middle than at the edges.
- (UK) A great black-backed gull.
- A larva of the bombycid moth.
- (geology) An anticline.
- A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end.
- A breed of pig which is black with a pink saddle-shaped marking.
- A saddle-shaped ridge forming a shallow pass between two peaks.
- (New Zealand) A passerine bird of the genus Philesturnus.
- a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
- a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end
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- a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment
- (music) An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.
- A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical.
- Any instrument of the same musicological classification; any yoke lute.
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- (countable) An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
- A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca.
- (countable) A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
- (countable) The style of a sundial.
- grass with wide flat leaves cultivated in Europe and America for permanent pasture and hay and for lawns
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- The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
- (nautical) The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
- (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
- (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
- (by extension) A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae.
- The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
- (zoology) Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.
- (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
- The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
- The bottom of a furrow.
- (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
- (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
- (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
- right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European
- lean flesh of any of several flatfish
- the underside of the foot
- the underside of footwear or a golf club
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- A harp seal.
- A raccoon oyster.
- Any of various creatures having a saddle-shaped marking on the back.
- A variety of domestic goose.
- (architecture) A coping that is thicker in the middle than at the edges.
- (UK) A great black-backed gull.
- A larva of the bombycid moth.
- (geology) An anticline.
- A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end.
- A breed of pig which is black with a pink saddle-shaped marking.
- A saddle-shaped ridge forming a shallow pass between two peaks.
- (New Zealand) A passerine bird of the genus Philesturnus.
- a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
- a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end
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- a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade
- a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
- a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers
- (Scotland) A grain sieve.
- (music) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
- Ellipsis of harp seal.
- Any instrument of the same musicological type.
- A harmonica.
- A struck tuned percussion instrument of metal or wooden bars, especially as a function of a theatre organ.
- The component of a lamp to which one attaches the lampshade, consisting of a lightweight frame that usually surrounds the bulb with an attachment at the top for the finial.