So far he was on the track of elementary Science. And so he made "bull-roarers" to imitate the sound of wind and the blessed rain-bringing thunder, or clashed great bronze cymbals together with the same object.
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Bullroarer
Synonyms for "bullroarer" (6 found)
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Related words (3)
Noun(3 words)
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30 translations across 20 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ῥόμβος noun (musical instrument)
Catalan
1 entries- brunzidor noun (musical instrument)
Extremaduran
2 entries- rombu noun (musical instrument)
- rumbu noun (musical instrument)
Finnish
2 entries- pärrä noun (musical instrument)
- suhistuspuu noun (musical instrument)
French
1 entries- rhombe noun (musical instrument)
German
2 entries- Schwirrgerät noun (musical instrument)
- Schwirrholz noun (musical instrument)
Gros Ventre
1 entries- nakaaⁿtaⁿ noun (musical instrument)
Inupiaq
2 entries- imigluktaaq noun (musical instrument)
- imigluktaun noun (musical instrument)
Italian
1 entries- rombo noun (musical instrument)
Latin
1 entries- rhombus noun (musical instrument)
Lower Tanana
1 entries- notniboddhi noun (musical instrument)
Māori
3 entries- pūrerehua noun (musical instrument)
- pūrorohū noun (musical instrument)
- whēorooro noun (musical instrument)
Nandi
1 entries- ñgetundo noun (musical instrument)
Navajo
1 entries- tsin ndi'ni' noun (musical instrument)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- brummer noun (musical instrument)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- brummar noun (musical instrument)
- hurre noun (musical instrument)
- summetre noun (musical instrument)
Polish
1 entries- czurynga noun (musical instrument)
Portuguese
1 entries- rombo noun (musical instrument)
Swedish
3 entries- brummare noun (musical instrument)
- brumsnurra noun (musical instrument)
- vinare noun (musical instrument)
Yoruba
1 entries- ajá Orò noun (musical instrument)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The men and boys practiced not only the technique of twirling the bullroarer, but also the mock attack staged upon the person twirling it.
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Frazer's ingenious theorizing is plausible as far as it goes, but it does not really explain why the bullroarer must be kept from women, the feature of the bullroarer complex that most troubled Lowie. Women are allowed to hear the sound of the bullroarer—indeed, the bullroarer is often used to warn women to keep away.
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Intrinsic to the propulsion of the bullroarer is the string and the hole the string is attached to. The average distance from the base to the center of the hole on the bullroarers under study is 0.9 cm. The placement of the hole is exceedingly important.
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