Chapter Strifeful to String of S by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

String band

(Mus.), a band of musicians using only, or chiefly, stringed instruments. — String beans. (a) A dish prepared from the unripe pods of several kinds of beans; — so called because the strings are stripped off. (b) Any kind of beans in which the pods are used for cooking before the seeds are ripe; usually, the low bush bean. — To have two strings to one's bow, to have a means or expedient in reserve in case the one employed fails.

String
(String) v. t. [imp. Strung (strung); p. p. Strung (R. Stringed (stringd)); p. pr. & vb. n. Stringing.]

1. To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.

Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet
With firmest nerves, designed to walk the street?

Gay.

2. To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.

For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung,
That not a mountain rears its head unsung.

Addison.

3. To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.

4. To make tense; to strengthen.

Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood.

Dryden.

5. To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.