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Roarer  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, roars. Specifically:
(a)
A riotous fellow; a roaring boy. "A lady to turn roarer, and break glasses."
(b)
(Far.) A horse subject to roaring. See Roaring, 2.
2.
(Zool.) The barn owl. (Prov. Eng.)






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"Roarer" Quotes from Famous Books



... triumphantly; "thar's Bruno—he's a roarer! and, besides that, 'bout every nigger of us keeps a pup ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... loaded a cart with wares of all kinds, yoked two bulls to it, named Lusty-life and Roarer, and started for Kashmir to trade. He had not gone far upon his journey when in passing through a great forest called Bramble-wood, Lusty-life slipped down and broke his foreleg. At sight of this disaster Well-to-do fell ...
— Hindu Literature • Epiphanius Wilson

... him that she had left it there, and she said nothing; while he opened and held it so that every drop of rain which slipped from it fell upon her neck and trickled down her back. 'Great Caesar! that was a roarer!' Dick said, as the peal of thunder which had so frightened Ann Eliza burst over their heads, and, echoing through the woods, went bellowing off in the direction of the river, 'That's a stunner! but ...
— Tracy Park • Mary Jane Holmes

... Lang's Custom and Myth there is an entertaining chapter on "The Bull Roarer," which the author identifies with the [Greek: rombos] mentioned by Clemens of Alexandria as one of the toys of the infant Dionysus. The "bull-roarer," known to the modern English boy, the ancient Greek, the ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain

... tugging, pulling, shoving every minute with might and main put us at the bottom. No sooner were we past this one than we engaged in a similar battle with another of the same nature, and below it we stopped for dinner, amidst some huge boulders under a hackberry tree, near another roarer. One of these cataracts had a fall of not less than twenty feet in six hundred, which gave the water terrific force and violence. The canyon walls closed in more and more and ran up to two thousand feet, apparently nearly vertical as one looked up at them, but there was always plenty of space ...
— A Canyon Voyage • Frederick S. Dellenbaugh



Words linked to "Roarer" :   crier, bawler, screecher, communicator, roar, yeller



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