Obs. [Echoic; cf. STRUM-STRUM, and strim-strum (in Eng. Dial. Dict.).] A rude stringed instrument of the guitar kind.
c. 1730. Ramsay, Gentleman in Country, 82. Your strim-strams and your jingling bells.
1771–2. Ess. fr. Batchelor (1773), I. 55. The nerves of the one, like the strings of a fiddle, vibrate on the slightest touch; whilst the other’s, like the cords of a Strim-stram, scarce bend under the rough hand of a porter.
