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Meanings of bull-roarers in English
Ritual musical instrument used for communicating over great distances.
Synonyms
Examples for "whizzer"
Examples for "whizzer"
1
And that time him and Demijohn sure had one whizzer of a time.
2
The atmosphere is always very moist about a whizzer, and there are frequently injurious fumes.
3
You can't run no whizzer like that on me.
4
That squall I rode in on was some whizzer!
5
He can't run a whizzer like that on me!
1
One look at his rhombus of a house was proof enough.
2
The crew also saw her wearing a wooden rhombus-shaped adornment in her lip.
3
One corridor dead-ended in a large chamber shaped like a rhombus.
4
That is the rhombus of Michaelis, the caption explained.
5
If it got a reader's attention, rhombus would do, this I learned from the Herald.
1
She would never forget the sound of a bullroarer.
2
The deep, haunting resonance of the bullroarer raised gooseflesh as much for its significance as for its sonorous timbre.
3
The crowd, smelling of tension and excitement, the unaccustomed sounds of wooden drums, bullroarer, and flute, all combined to make the animal nervous.
4
In the meanwhile, however, Bullroarer's gentler descendant was reviving in the drawing-room.
5
I had a great-great-great-grand-uncle once, Bullroarer Took, and-
1
That calamity was produced by a man's showing a woman the mystic turndun, a native sacred toy.
2
The Greek and savage use of the turndun, or bribbun of Australia in the mysteries is familiar to students.
3
Unfortunately, Lobeck, who published the Greek description of the turndun (Aglaophamus, 700), was unacquainted with the modern ethnological evidence.
4
Among the Kurnai, the sacred mystery of the turndun is preserved by a legend, which gives a supernatural sanction to secrecy.
5
They are then told that, if ever a woman is allowed to see a turndun, the earth will open, and water will cover the globe.
1
By this time the bull-roarer had ceased to bellow among the rocks.
2
Through it all the voice of the King whirled like a bull-roarer.
3
The memory of the old hag and the bull-roarer was in my mind.
4
To study the bull-roarer is to take a lesson in folklore.
5
Are the spear-thrower and the bull-roarer inevitably thought of as alive?
Usage of bull-roarers in English
1
Nearly all of them had ratchets or droning pipes or bull-roarers or circle-bowed strings clamoring out their own particular recognition signal.
2
When boys go through the mystic ceremony of initiation they are shown turnduns, or bull-roarers, and made to listen to their hideous din.
Translations for bull-roarers
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