3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
String \String\ (str[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. {Strung} (str[u^]ng);
p. p. {Strung} (R. {Stringed} (str[i^]ngd)); p. pr & vb n.
{Stringing}.]
1. To furnish with strings; as to string a violin.
Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet With
firmest nerves, designed to walk the street? --Gay.
2. To put in tune the strings of as a stringed instrument,
in order to play upon it
For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That
not a mountain rears its head unsung. --Addison.
3. To put on a string; to file; as to string beads.
4. To make tense; to strengthen.
Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood.
--Dryden.
5. To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from as to
string beans. See {String}, n., 9.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Strung \Strung\,
imp. & p. p. of {String}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
strung
adj : that is on a string; "keys strung on a red cord"
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