HARPER

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A player on the harp; a minstrel. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks . . . Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Longfellow.

2.
n.

A brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp, -- formerly current in Ireland. B. Jonson.


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