spinet

Borrowed from Italian spinetta.

• spinnet

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈspɪn.ɪt/, /spɪˈnɛt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈspɪn.ɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt, -ɪnɪt

spinet (plural spinets)

1. (music) A short, compact harpsichord or piano.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.

• dumb spinet

• virginal

From Latin spīnētum. Doublet of spinney

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɪn.ɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnɪt

spinet (plural spinets)

1. (obsolete) A spinney.^[1]
   • 1603, Ben Jonson, The Entertainment at Althorp:

     The invention was to have a Satyr lodged in a little spinet, by which her majesty and the prince were to come

• T-spine, in step, instep, nepits, pinest, septin, step in, step-in

• špinet

• IPA^(key): [ˈspɪnɛt]
• Hyphenation: spi‧net

spinet m inan

1. (music) spinet

• cembalo

• “spinet”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “spinet”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From spin +‎ -et.

spinet n (plural spineturi)

1. thornbush