thairm
/θɛrm/
noun
- A string or cord, especially one made from animal gut (such as a catgut string for a musical instrument or a surgical suture).
- The luthier carefully replaced the broken thairm on the violin.
- Surgeons once used thairm for stitching wounds before modern synthetic threads were available.
- The old harp had a set of thairm strings that gave it a warm, mellow tone.