Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

String \String\ (str[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. {Strung} (str[u^]ng);
   p. p. {Strung} (R. {Stringed} (str[i^]ngd)); 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.