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Meanings of whizzer in inglés
Ritual musical instrument used for communicating over great distances.
Synonyms
Examples for "rhombus"
Examples for "rhombus"
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?
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.
Usage of whizzer in inglés
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!
6
Anyhow, it's going to be a whizzer, and I want to talk to you about it.
7
He said that in a situation of that sort he usually prescribed a 'lightning whizzer', an invention of his own.
8
Clay he's the best-natured fellow you ever did see, but there can't nobody run a whizzer on him, y' betcha.
9
He pulled a whizzer on me, and now he's about to pull one on you." "How do you mean?"
10
So Damon's Whizzer goes on the scrap heap before ever it's built.
11
That, however, did not prove that Whizzer was not at home.
12
That's my big idea-Damon'sWhizzer-propellersrevolving in compressed air like water.
13
And there is where my Whizzer-WakefieldDamon's Whizzer-isgoing to revolutionize air travel!
14
Maybe Demon Whizzer would be more appropriate, but we won't decide on that now.
15
They sicked Whizzer on Jack hyeh and Jack whooped him.
16
There is an entirely new principle of elevation and propulsion involved in my Whizzer, and I-
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Whizzer through the time