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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
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sambuke
1. sambuca [n -S] - See also: sambuca
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sambuke
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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