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levy | guitar |

As a proper noun levy

is : levy.

As a noun guitar is

a stringed musical instrument, usually with fretted fingerboard and 6 strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).

As a verb guitar is

(rare) to play the guitar.

levy

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) leve'', from (etyl) ''levee'', from ''lever "to raise".

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property
  • to levy a tax
  • To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
  • * Shakespeare
  • If they do this my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied .
  • To draft someone into military service
  • To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrolment, conscription. etc.
  • * Fuller
  • Augustine inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
  • To wage war
  • To raise, as a siege.
  • (Holland)
  • (legal) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
  • to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.
    (Cowell)

    Noun

    (levies)
  • The act of levying.
  • * Thirlwall
  • A levy of all the men left under sixty.
  • The tax, property or people so levied.
  • * Macaulay
  • The Irish levies .

    Etymology 2

    Contraction of elevenpence.

    Noun

    (levies)
  • (US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
  • See also

    * levee * Levi ----

    guitar

    English

    (wikipedia guitar)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stringed musical instrument, usually with fretted fingerboard and 6 strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
  • Synonyms

    * axe (slang) * gat (New Zealand slang)

    Derived terms

    * acoustic guitar * air guitar * bass guitar * electric guitar * guitarist * guitarfish * harpguitar * lead guitar * moon guitar * rhythm guitar

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To play the guitar.
  • See also

    * banjo * bass * mandolin * sitar * ukulele ----