| 1. | an acoustic, hand-held guitar having a metal resonator and producing a wailing, variable sound. |
| 2. | a pedal steel guitar. |
| 3. | a Hawaiian guitar. |

| a six-to-eight-string electric guitar, fretted with a piece of metal or bone to produce a whining, glissando sound, played in a horizontal position usually resting on the performer's knees or on a stand, and much used by country music performers. |
| Hawaiian guitar n. An electric guitar consisting of a long fretted neck and six to eight steel strings that are plucked while being pressed with a movable steel bar. Also called steel guitar. |
| steel guitar n.
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