How to pronounce “harp”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (music) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
• (music, colloquial) Any musical instrument.
• (Scotland) A grain sieve.
• The component of a lamp to which one attaches the lampshade, consisting of a lightweight frame that usually surrounds the bulb with an attachment at the top for the finial.
• Ellipsis of harp seal.
• [Verb]
• (derogatory, usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject, especially so as to nag or complain.
• (transitive) To play on (a harp or similar instrument).
• (transitive) To play (a tune) on the harp.
• (transitive, archaic) To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

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