Bible Dictionaries
Contrabass

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The lowest stringed instrument of the violin family.

(2):

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Contrabass'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/contrabass.html. 1828.