viol

Any of a family of stringed instruments, chiefly of the 1500s and 1600s, having a fretted fingerboard, usually six strings, and a flat back and played with a curved bow.

An obsolete form of vial.

A musical instrument with strings, essentially not greatly different from the lute and the guitar, except that the strings are sounded by means of a bow drawn across them, not by plucking them with the fingers.

A large rope formerly used in purchasing an anchor: same as messenger

A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings.

A large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor.

A viola da gamba, a family of musical instruments that preceded the violin and viola and similar string instruments

any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family