Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STRING, v.t. [pret. and pp. strung.]

1. To furnish with strings. Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet? – Gay.
2. To put in tune a stringed instrument. For here the muse so oft her harp has strung. – Addison.
3. To file; to put on a line; as, to string beads or pearls. – Spectator.
4. To make tense; to strengthen. Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood. – Dryden.
5. To deprive of strings; as, to string beans.