spi‧net /spɪˈnet $ ˈspɪnət/
noun [countable][
Date: 1600-1700;
Language: Italian;
Origin: spinetta, perhaps from Giovanni Spinetti 16th-century Italian musician who supposedly invented the instrument]
1. a musical instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries, which is played like a piano
2. American English a small
upright piano [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲