an obsolete bass lute with two sets of strings attached to separate peg boxes, one above the other, on the neck.
Origin: 1595–1605; < It teorba, var. of tiorba, special use of Venetian tiorba, var. of tuorba traveling bag ≪ Turk torba bag; so called from the bag it was carried in
[thee-awr-boh] 
