harp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑːp/
ipa: /hɑɹp/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: harps
Etymology: From Middle English harpe, from Old English hearpe (“harp”), from Proto-West Germanic *harpā, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ (“harp”). Cognate with Scots hairp (“harp”), West Frisian harpe, harp (“harp”), Low German Harp (“harp”), Dutch harp (“harp”), German Harfe (“harp”), Danish harpe (“harp”), Swedish harpa (“harp”).
Senses: examples: text: The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge
ref: 1568, William Cornishe [i.e., William Cornysh], “In the Fleete Made by Me William Cornishe otherwise Called Nyshwhete Chapelman with the Most Famose and Noble Kyng Henry the VII. His Reygne the XIX. Yere the Moneth of July. A Treatise betwene Trouth, and Information.”, in John Skelton, edited by J[ohn] S[tow], Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, Imprinted at London: In Fletestreate, neare vnto Saint Dunstones Churche by Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished as Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: Printed for C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, 1736, →OCLC, page 290:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: 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
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: 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
Any instrument of the same musicological type.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any musical instrument.
A harmonica.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any musical instrument.
A struck tuned percussion instrument of metal or wooden bars, especially as a function of a theatre organ.
glosses: A grain sieve.
examples: text: Contains charts and instructions for wiring. Shows sockets, wire, harps, glass chimneys and globes, shade holders, bases, finials, and hundreds of items necessary in the building of lamps.
ref: 1960, School Shop, volume 20, page 36:
text: Both types of harp have a swiveling shade holder at the top. The threaded stud on the swivel accepts the finial.
ref: 1991, Kalton C. Lahue, Cheryl Smith, Interior Lighting, page 104:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: More likely, it was the prospect of meat. Curwen was by now craving a juicy roast – 'even seal chop' – and was always loosing off at tickleasses and harps.
ref: 2006, John Gimlette, Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador, page 225:
glosses: Ellipsis of harp seal.
Synonyms: glee-beam
Hyponyms: aeolian harp
angle harp
angular harp
arch harp
autoharp
bow harp
claviharp
double harp
electric harp
frame harp
French harp
glass harp
harp guitar
harp of David
harpsichord
Indian harp
Irish harp
jaw harp
Jew's harp
Judaic harp
juice harp
key harp
King David's harp
mouth harp
open harp
pillar harp
sacred harp
triangular harp
triple harp
vibraharp
wind harp
Derived terms: æolian harp
Aeolian harp
arched harp
Celtic harp
Harp
harp closure
Harper
harper
harp-guitar
harp guitarist
harp-guitarist
harp holder
Harp Island
harpist
harpless
harplike
harpmaker
harp on
harp on one string
harp on the same string
harp-player
harp shackle
harp shell
harp snail
harpstring
harp trap
jaws-harp
Jaws'-harp
Jaws-harp
jaws harp
jaws' harp
Jaw's harp
jaw's harp
Jewes-harp
jewes harp
Jewes harp
jew harp
Jews'-harp
Jews harp
Jew's-harp
jew's harp
Jews' harp
jews'-harp
jews-harp
jews harp
Jews-harp
Kafir harp
lamp harp
laser harp
Welsh harp
Related terms: harp seal
lyre