a wooden bowl in which mustard seeds are pounded, used proverbially with reference to its use as an instrument for producing stage thunder.
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| 释义 | society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > machinery for effects > for thunder (8) mustard-bowl1674 a wooden bowl in which mustard seeds are pounded, used proverbially with reference to its use as an instrument for producing stage thunder. thunder-trunk1767 a trunk in which iron balls were rolled to imitate thunder. thunder-drum1807 (a) a drum used in a theatre to imitate thunder; (b) a fabulous drum represented as the source of thunder. thundering-machine1826 an apparatus for imitating thunder in a theatre. bronteon1849 crash1891 Theatre. (See quots. 1891 1947.) thunder-sheet1913 a piece of sheet metal shaken to imitate thunder. thunder run1944 two wooden troughs down which iron balls were rolled to imitate thunder. |
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