| 单词 | horse-fiddle |
| 释义 | > as lemmashorse-fiddle horse-fiddle n. U.S. (see quot. 1872). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > rattle sistruma1398 sistre1538 siester1595 gourd1596 maraca1598 salt-box1763 horse-fiddle1807 anklung1817 shack-shack1848 chac-chac1870 shaker1943 lagerphone1956 vibraslap1970 1807 J. Jennings Let. 19 Sept. in Ind. Hist. Coll. Soc. Publ. (1932) X. 164 The French..convened around the house of the new couple..playing on horse fiddles. 1843 Knickerbocker 21 46 The clangor of trumpets, the clattering of pans, the grinding of horse-fiddles. 1872 E. Eggleston End of World xlvi. 294 Bill Day had a gigantic watchman's rattle, a hickory spring on a cog~wheel. It is called in the West a horse-fiddle, because it is so unlike either a horse or a fiddle. 1911 H. Quick Yellowstone Nights viii. 212 In addition to the horse~fiddles and bells and horns Absalom had arranged some private theatricals. < as lemmas |
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