| 1. | Also called hammered dulcimer, hammer dulcimer. a trapezoidal zither with metal strings that are struck with light hammers. |
| 2. | a modern folk instrument related to the guitar and plucked with the fingers. |
| hammered dulcimer or hammer dulcimer n. A musical instrument with wire strings of graduated lengths stretched over a sound box, played by striking with two padded hammers. |