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Definition of Roarers
1. roarer [n] - See also: roarer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roarers
Literary usage of Roarers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Native Tribes of Central Australia by Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen (1899)
"CHATTER V THE CHURINGA OR BULL roarers OF THE ARUNTA AND OTHER TRIBES General
description of Churinga—Mystery attached to their use—Finding of the Churinga ..."
2. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"In Mabuiag a small garden shrine, an arch or booth, was erected within and outside
which bull-roarers, bigu, were hung. Little wooden human figures were ..."
3. Sketches of Life and Character by Alexander Campbell (1842)
"roarers. We know several persons who have literally roared themselves into
respectability, consideration, and influence, without the aid of any other single ..."
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