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Noun: psaltery  sól-tu-ree or sol-tu-ree
  1. An ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings
    "The musician played a haunting melody on the psaltery"

Derived forms: psalteries

Type of: stringed instrument

Encyclopedia: Psaltery