英语词汇“rain stick”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

rain stick n. (a) colloquial (originally U.S.) an umbrella; (b) a stick used in rain-making rituals; (c) a rattle consisting of a sealed cylinder lined with thin pins and filled with small objects such as seeds or pebbles, which makes a sound similar to that of falling rain when inverted.

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1894 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Evening Gaz. 9 Nov. 5/2 The editor's umbrella... For about two weeks a very desirable rain-stick had leaned against the desk.

1897 W. E. Roth Ethnol. Stud. N.-W.-Central Queensland Aborigines xii. 167 The singing over, the central figure dives out of sight, and attaches the rain-stick into the hollow log.

1984 Chicago Tribune 4 May vii. 8/1 Drums Ltd...stocks more than 1,000 different percussion instruments—everything from tam tam gongs..to Klaxon horns and Brazilian rain sticks.

1990 New Age Jrnl. June 84/3 (advt.) Zapotec tapetes, ceremonial rainsticks,..and masks.

1992 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 30 Apr. 12 Every weapon against brollies has been tried... When they first appeared in London, rain sticks were considered effete and foreign affectations.

2006 Mod. Drummer Nov. 126/1 [He] plays a traditional acoustic drumkit for Tarzan, augmented by..a djembe, a couple of shakers, a tambourine, and a rain-stick.

单词	rain stick
释义	> as lemmas rain stick rain stick n. (a) colloquial (originally U.S.) an umbrella; (b) a stick used in rain-making rituals; (c) a rattle consisting of a sealed cylinder lined with thin pins and filled with small objects such as seeds or pebbles, which makes a sound similar to that of falling rain when inverted. ΚΠ 1894 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Evening Gaz. 9 Nov. 5/2 The editor's umbrella... For about two weeks a very desirable rain-stick had leaned against the desk. 1897 W. E. Roth Ethnol. Stud. N.-W.-Central Queensland Aborigines xii. 167 The singing over, the central figure dives out of sight, and attaches the rain-stick into the hollow log. 1984 Chicago Tribune 4 May vii. 8/1 Drums Ltd...stocks more than 1,000 different percussion instruments—everything from tam tam gongs..to Klaxon horns and Brazilian rain sticks. 1990 New Age Jrnl. June 84/3 (advt.) Zapotec tapetes, ceremonial rainsticks,..and masks. 1992 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 30 Apr. 12 Every weapon against brollies has been tried... When they first appeared in London, rain sticks were considered effete and foreign affectations. 2006 Mod. Drummer Nov. 126/1 [He] plays a traditional acoustic drumkit for Tarzan, augmented by..a djembe, a couple of shakers, a tambourine, and a rain-stick. extracted from rainn.¹ < as lemmas
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