Definition of Sambuke

1. n. An ancient stringed instrument used by the Greeks, the particular construction of which is unknown.

Definition of Sambuke

1. Noun. (music) An Ancient Greek stringed instrument, the particular construction of which is unknown. ¹

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Definition of Sambuke

1. sambuca [n -S] - See also: sambuca

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sambuke

sambals
sambar
sambars
sambas
sambhar
sambhars
sambhur
sambhurs
sambo
samboo
sambos
sambubiose
sambuca
sambucas
sambucus
sambuke (current term)
sambukes
sambuq
sambuqs
sambur
samburs
same
same(p)
same-blooded
same-bloodedness
same-minded
same-old, same-old
same-old same-old

Literary usage of Sambuke

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"ME. sum, together (Cursor M. 9750); see NED. (sv Samen, adv.), and Diet. M. and S. sambuke, a triangular stringed-instrument of a very sharp shrill tone. ..."

2. Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"... (as if a tube that can be drawn out, from sacar, to draw out), corrupted from the Latin sambuca (Ascham spells it sambuke'), ..."

3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"20) is als<> an error, the instrument depicted being a fanciful delineation of the sambuke, an ancient four-stringed lyre. ..."

4. The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn by Elizabeth Bisland, Lafcadio Hearn (1906)
"O that I were a travelling shoemaker, or a player upon the sambuke! I have two — nay three — projects sown: the seed has not yet sprouted. ..."

5. Our Northern Shrubs and how to Identify Them: A Handbook for the Nature-lover by Harriet Louise Keeler (1903)
"Sambucas is a word of doubtful origin and of no significance as applied to this plant. An old explanation was that the word is derived from sambuke, ..."

6. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"(5) To stand »em for one, is to be answerable fo him, to be his surety. SAMARE. The skirt of a mantua. sambuke. ..."

7. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"The name of the genus is from the Greek, sambuke, a musical wind instrument made of the hollow stems of the elder. The Mexican Elder (S. Mexicana, DC. ..."

8. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"ME. sum, together (Cursor M. 9750); see NED. (sv Samen, adv.), and Diet. M. and S. sambuke, a triangular stringed-instrument of a very sharp shrill tone. ..."

9. Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"... (as if a tube that can be drawn out, from sacar, to draw out), corrupted from the Latin sambuca (Ascham spells it sambuke'), ..."

10. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"20) is als<> an error, the instrument depicted being a fanciful delineation of the sambuke, an ancient four-stringed lyre. ..."

11. The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn by Elizabeth Bisland, Lafcadio Hearn (1906)
"O that I were a travelling shoemaker, or a player upon the sambuke! I have two — nay three — projects sown: the seed has not yet sprouted. ..."

12. Our Northern Shrubs and how to Identify Them: A Handbook for the Nature-lover by Harriet Louise Keeler (1903)
"Sambucas is a word of doubtful origin and of no significance as applied to this plant. An old explanation was that the word is derived from sambuke, ..."

13. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"(5) To stand »em for one, is to be answerable fo him, to be his surety. SAMARE. The skirt of a mantua. sambuke. ..."

14. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"The name of the genus is from the Greek, sambuke, a musical wind instrument made of the hollow stems of the elder. The Mexican Elder (S. Mexicana, DC. ..."

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