| 单词 | rattle-bones |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrattle-bones rattle-bones n. two pieces of bone or ivory held between the fingers of each hand and rattled together as an accompaniment to the banjo or other instrument; cf. bone n.1 19a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > bones bone1600 snapper1605 knick-knack1650 marrowbones1714 rattle-bones1819 jawbone1844 knicky-knackers1876 1819 W. Irving Hist. N. Y. (ed. 3) I. iv. vi. 228 A full band of boys..performing on the popular instruments of rattle-bones and clam-shells. 1914 R. Hughes Clipped Wings 70 The meter of the train had hitherto been but a dry, monotonous clickety-click like the rattle bones of a dolorous negro minstrel. 1999 N. Haugerud Jail Stories 74 She told us how, as a little girl, she danced the Irish jig with her father in the barber shop while he played the rattle bones. < as lemmas |
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