( n. )
The largest instrument of the bass-viol kind, having strings tuned an octave below those of the violoncello; the contrabasso; -- called also double bass.
( n. )
The largest instrument of the bass-viol kind, having strings tuned an octave below those of the violoncello; the contrabasso; -- called also double bass.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012