The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
n. A stringed instrument of India that has a long, fretted fingerboard with resonating gourds at each end.
Word Usage
"While others have arbitrarily assigned the meaning of 'vineyard' to the Etruscan hapax vinac, I prefer to pay proper attention to the larger context from which it comes, the phrase vina-c restm-c, which more sensibly reads as 'both wine and lees'."