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noun
Any of various musical instruments comprising a resonator and string bearer that are physically united, with strings parallel to the sound table and a handle which is also the string bearer and which passes diametrically through the resonator.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Narrower terms: spike bowl lute, spike box lute, spike tube lute
History
So called because the handle often forms a spike where it emerges from the resonator.
