spinet means A short, compact harpsichord or piano. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
noun
- A short, compact harpsichord or piano.“He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.”
- A spinney.“The invention was to have a Satyr lodged in a little spinet, by which her majesty and the prince were to come”