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Definition of Harping
1. a. Pertaining to the harp; as, harping symphonies.
Definition of Harping
1. Verb. (present participle of harp) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Harping
1. a wooden plank used in shipbuilding [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harping
Literary usage of Harping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"Who in old times as gods were holden Loved the music of harping; ... that he were
Such music in his harping is. In one of the joys of Paradis, ..."
2. The Compromises of Life, and Other Lectures and Addresses, Including Some by Henry Watterson (1903)
"STILL harping ON MY DAUGHTER! Courier-Journal, June 10, 1903. The Pittsburg Press,
following in the wake of those melancholy yet belated Danes of daily ..."
3. A Commentary on the Revelation of St. John, the Divine by Thomas Whittemore (1858)
"20* voice of harpers harping with their harps : 3 And they sung as it were a new
song before the throne, praise offered to God hy the Christians throughout ..."
4. On the Study of Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold (1867)
"So, also, we find Mr. Meyer, whose Celtic studies I just now mentioned, harping
again and again on the connection even in Europe, if you go back far enough, ..."
5. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1826)
"As the Athenians dreaded very much the beaks of the Syracusan galleys, Nicias
had provided harping irons to grapple them, in order to break the (force of ..."
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