Roarer

a thing we called a roarer; I don't know whether they have such things now. ❋ Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1896)

_Irishman_ (_discussing "roarer" recently purchased by P. - W.S. _). ❋ Various (N/A)

_Whistling_ is only one of the variations of the sound emitted by a horse called a "roarer," and therefore needs no further notice, except to remind the reader that a whistling sound may be produced during an attack of severe sore throat or inflammation of the larynx, which passes away with the disease that causes it. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

"roarer" is either to make him pull a load rapidly up a hill or over a sandy road or soft ground; or, if he is a saddle horse, gallop him up a hill or over soft ground. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

Shahal (the "roarer"), the mature lion (Job 4: 10; Ps. 91: 13; ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)

The lion on the pedestal implies that Nadini, or “roarer” may be her true name. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Commerzbank, what a rip-roarer of a day, up more than 6 percent. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So he was due in at 8:40pm and I waited a long time at the airport in the middle of a rip roarer storm. ❋ Studio Marcy - Marcy Lamberson (2007)

Still the unconquerable superstition that now seeks to tell fortunes by the cards, and, in your time, resorted to the sorceress with her magical “bull-roarer” or turndun. ❋ Unknown (2006)

For an instant, Egmatel gaped like a boy seeing his first bull roarer. ❋ Larry Niven (2005)

And in Autralian aboriginal culture, the name of the sky god is divulged in the sound of the bull-roarer, which Mickey Hart writes about in ❋ John Perry Barlow (2005)

Let us see the best roarer that ever strained his lungs for twelve pence out-mouth me! ❋ Unknown (2004)

Whilst staying in the town I heard an account from several of the inhabitants, of a hill in the neighbourhood which they called "El Bramador," — the roarer or bellower. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The sound had the fullness of a baritone, rhythmic and slow, the noise of a bull-roarer, booming from that massive diaphragm. ❋ Moorcock, Michael, 1939- (2003)

But before that, he was a roarer, and he drank just an enormous amount. ❋ Unknown (1998)

A sound like a single bell chime followed by the growl of a bull-roarer suddenly came to our ears. ❋ Zelazny, Roger (1976)

Runaway roarer, freighted with human souls, stampeder of policemen and horses - it was Uncle Sid with his mighty hands who mastered its mad career. ❋ Lee, Laurie (1959)