Crossword-Solution: BULLROARER
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| AUSTRALIAN Aboriginal flat strip of wood tied to string, used in rites | 1 answer |
| ABORIGINAL instrument for calling men for ceremonies | 1 answer |
| AUSTRALIAN Aboriginal instrument for calling men for ceremonies | 1 answer |
| WOOD tied to string making roaring sound when whirled round | 1 answer |
| STRIP of wood tied to string making roaring sound when whirled round | 1 answer |
| AUSTRALIAN Aboriginal strip of wood tied to string, used in rites | 1 answer |
| AUSTRALIAN Aboriginal whizzer | 1 answer |
| FLAT strip of wood tied to string making roaring sound when whirled round | 1 answer |
| AUSTRALIAN noise-making instrument | 1 answer |
| Child's noisemaker | 1 answer |
| whizzing stick | 2 answers |
| AUSTRALIAN Aboriginal whizzing stick | 2 answers |
| AUSTRALIAN Aboriginal noise-making instrument | 2 answers |
| AUSTRALIAN Aboriginal lightning stick | 2 answers |
| lightning stick | 3 answers |
| whizzer | 3 answers |
| AUSTRALIAN Aboriginal instrument | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BULLROARER (5)
BULLROARER, the English name for an instrument made of a small flat slip of wood, through a hole in one end of which a string is passed; swung round rapidly it makes a booming, humming noise.
Though treated as a toy by Europeans, the bullroarer has had the highest mystic significance and sanctity among primitive people.
Thus among the Egba tribe of the Yoruba race the supposed "Voice of Oro," their god of vengeance, is produced by a bullroarer, which is actually worshipped as the god himself.
Among some of the Australian tribes of New South Wales, when lads are initiated, it is thought that a being called Thuremlin takes each lad to a distance, kills him, and sometimes cuts him up, after which he restores him to life and knocks out a tooth.(900) In one part of Queensland the humming sound of the Bullroarer, which is swung at the initiatory rites, is said to be the noise made by the wizards in swallowing the boys and bringing them up again as young men.
Every one stopped singing and dancing, and Goggle Eye whispered that it was the voice of the great sacred Bullroarer, calling to say that it was time to take the young boys away into the bush.
Quotes with BULLROARER (1)
If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfibul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the batt…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1976).