Git"tern (?), n. [OE. giterne, OF. guiterne, ultimately from same source as E. guitar. See Guitar, and cf. Cittern.]
An instrument like a guitar.
"Harps, lutes, and
giternes."
Chaucer.
© Webster 1913.
Git"tern, v. i.
To play on gittern.
Milton.
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