Usually means: Stringed instrument played with hammers.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word dulcimer:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. dulcimer: Merriam-Webster
  2. dulcimer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dulcimer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dulcimer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dulcimer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dulcimer, dulcimer: Wordnik
  7. dulcimer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dulcimer: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. dulcimer: Wiktionary
  10. dulcimer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. dulcimer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. dulcimer: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Dulcimer, dulcimer: Dictionary.com
  14. dulcimer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Dulcimer (disambiguation), Dulcimer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dulcimer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dulcimer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dulcimer: Rhymezone
  19. Dulcimer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dulcimer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dulcimer: FreeDictionary.org
  22. dulcimer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dulcimer: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. dulcimer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Musical Instruments (No longer online)
  2. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Dulcimer: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops
  5. Dulcimer: Early Patches (musical instruments)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dulcimer: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dulcimer: Easton Bible
  2. Dulcimer: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. DULCIMER: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dulcimer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dulcimer: The Folk File

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See dulcimers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal, played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers).

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