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Meanings of bull-roarer in inglês

russo
аэрофон вихревой
português
rombo
catalão
brunzidor
espanhol
churinga
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Ritual musical instrument used for communicating over great distances.

rombo
Usage of bull-roarer in inglês
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By this time the bull-roarer had ceased to bellow among the rocks.
The Great Taboo
2
Through it all the voice of the King whirled like a bull-roarer.
Cities in Flight
3
The memory of the old hag and the bull-roarer was in my mind.
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American...
4
To study the bull-roarer is to take a lesson in folklore.
Custom and Myth
5
Are the spear-thrower and the bull-roarer inevitably thought of as alive?
Anthropology
6
The bull-roarer has, of all toys, the widest diffusion, and the most extraordinary history.
Custom and Myth
7
The bull-roarer has been, and is, a sacred and magical instrument in many and widely separated lands.
Custom and Myth
8
The bull-roarer is an instrument easily invented by savages, and easily adopted into the ritual of savage mysteries.
Custom and Myth
9
A sound like a single bell chime followed by the growl of a bull-roarer suddenly came to our ears.
The Great Book of Amber
10
There are students who would found on this a hypothesis that the various races that use the bull-roarer all descend from the same stock.
Custom and Myth
11
Nearly all of them had ratchets or droning pipes or bull-roarers or circle-bowed strings clamoring out their own particular recognition signal.
Jem
12
When boys go through the mystic ceremony of initiation they are shown turnduns, or bull-roarers, and made to listen to their hideous din.
Custom and Myth
Translations for bull-roarer
português
rombo
catalão
brunzidor