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- noun Plural form of
roarer .
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Examples
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Twinkling chaffer/roarers followed behind them, quickly surpassing the pillars as they raced into the starfield.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 15.1 of 31.1 2009
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The calls may come from bull-roarers, trumpets, rattles, wooden clackers, songs, bells, or the chanting of muezzin atop the minarets.
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Plus, found John Zorn's new album Rituals which from advance comment is a fascinating soundscape, involving woodwinds, strings, and horns as well as wind machines, bull roarers, the sound of gravedigging, and "a live owl".
prog, underground, webupdates, music, colors, convo, shopping, zorn badger 2005
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These people, now Democratic wonksters and blog-roarers, only talk to other people as isolated from reality as they are.
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These people, now Democratic wonksters and blog-roarers, only talk to other people as isolated from reality as they are.
Archive 2004-10-01 2004
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The ritual drone of Reagan's bull-roarers was punctuated with little bleeps and high squirts of sound from the President's horns.
Dead Heat Dumb-Out Wills, Garry 1976
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The faces of bitter men, happy men quiet ones and big bull-roarers but all with one common feature, that greedy glitter in the eyes.
When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964
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As we clambered down the mossed craggy paths, the wooden bull-roarers, that they dance to in the cave, boomed and roared in our ears; and when we had rowed out of the long shadow of the mountain into sunlit water, it was like being born again.
The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962
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This is the iniquity of this dull age: I remember the time when it went on the mad side; all your top wits were scowrers, [393] rakes, roarers, and demolishers of windows.
The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken
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The most prolific wells are appropriately called "roarers."
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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