- (n.) Double bass; -- applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contrabass tuba or bombardon.
- (n.) The lowest stringed instrument of the violin family.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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