gourd rattle
gourd rattle noun: a rattle made from a hollowed-out dried gourd into which dried seeds or gravel is placed.
Noun
gourd rattle (plural gourd rattles)
- A rattle made from a hollowed-out dried gourd into which dried seeds or gravel is placed.
- He made gourd-rattles (known in ever so many parts of the world) in which he rattled dried seeds or small pebbles with a most beguiling and rain-like insistence; or sometimes, like the priests of Baal in the Bible, he would cut himself with knives till the blood fell upon the ground in great drops...1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 72
Forms of gourd rattle
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Questions about gourd rattle
- What does gourd rattle mean?
- Gourd rattle means a rattle made from a hollowed-out dried gourd into which dried seeds or gravel is placed.
- What part of speech is gourd rattle?
- Gourd rattle is a noun.
- What is the plural of gourd rattle?
- The plural of gourd rattle is gourd rattles.
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