Definitions for bull-roarer

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bull-roarer bull-roar·er

Spelling: [boo l-rawr-er, -rohr-]

IPA: /ˈbʊlˌrɔr ər, -ˌroʊr-/

Bull-Roarer is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 261 anagrams from letters in bull-roarer (-abellorrru).

Definitions for bull-roarer

noun

1. a wooden slat that produces a roaring sound when whirled around one's head on the end of a string or thong, used by some peoples of the world in religious ceremonies and by others as a toy.

Origin of bull-roarer

First recorded in 1880-85

Examples for bull-roarer

We do not learn, however, that women in Zuni are forbidden to look upon the bull-roarer.

There is no record of a bull-roarer among the Melanesian folk.

In the first place, the bull-roarer is associated with mysteries and initiations.

We have studied the bull-roarer in Australia, we have caught a glimpse of it in England.

In the first place the bull-roarer is associated with mysteries and initiations.

A number of questions are naturally suggested by the bull-roarer.

But Greek mysteries retained the daubing with mud and the use of the bull-roarer.

We have already examined in ‘The bull-roarer’ a very similar example.

A snake is also painted on a Nahuqu bull-roarer (Fig. 103, G).

By "staff" Mr. Ridley appears to indicate the Tundun, or bull-roarer.