babracot
babracot noun: a grate used by some native South Americans to roast meat.
Noun
babracot (plural babracots)
- A grate used by some native South Americans to roast meat.
- Before they leave a temporary camp in the forest, where they have killed a tapir and dried the meat on a babracot, the Indians of Guiana invariably destroy this babracot.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 236
Verb
babracot (third-person singular simple present babracots, present participle babracoting, simple past and past participle babracoted)
- To roast on the babracot.
- Should a tapir passing that way find traces of the slaughter of one of his kind, he would come by night on the next occasion when Indians slept at that place, and, taking a man, would babracot him in revenge.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 236
Forms of babracot
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | babracots |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | babracots |
| present participle | babracoting |
| past participle | babracoted |
| past | babracoted |
Questions about babracot
- What does babracot mean?
- Babracot means a grate used by some native South Americans to roast meat.
- What part of speech is babracot?
- Babracot can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of babracot?
- The plural of babracot is babracots.
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