Whizzer

The instrument designated above as the whizzer is a thin, flat, pointed piece of wood, painted black and sparkling with the specular iron ore which is sprinkled on the surface; three small pieces of turquoise are inlaid in the wood to represent eyes and mouth. ❋ Washington Matthews (1874)

Yesterday Wally and I loaded up our Renault with the motor mower whizzer, spades, forks, rakes, brooms, and drove to five Rose Hill Road. ❋ Donald Sturrock (2010)

I'm sure there's a word in German -- they are a whizzer with those kicky compound nouns -- but none in English for that precise combination. ❋ CC (2009)

Why she was not told she was being foolish and threatened with a fixed whizzer for Wasting Police Time is quite beyond me, but the ensuing row has at least ensured that it will not be repeated; suffice it to say that there were very good reasons why I preferred sleeping rough to returning home. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2006)

Pour about a cupful of poppyseeds with 2-3 tbsp of icing sugar into a whizzer/grinder and whizz until you see the colour change to a nice poppyseed grey. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"Ain't this been a gee-whizzer of a storm?" queried the oil man, holding the two Aleuts at arm's length. ❋ Roy Rockwood (N/A)

"I've seen considerable fools in my life, but when a man gits to where he thinks he kin put over a whizzer on God A'mighty an 'git away with it -- it's pretty close to cashin' in time fer him." ❋ Unknown (1921)

Snake youths, the priests, and in the rear a costumed warrior with bow and whizzer. ❋ Hattie Greene Lockett (1921)

Again the standard bearer, with his whizzer or thunder-maker, leads, followed by the asperger, and we hear the sound of thunder, as the whizzer (sometimes called the bull-roarer) is whirled rapidly over the priest's head. ❋ Hattie Greene Lockett (1921)

Led by their chief, bearing the insignia of the Antelope fraternity and the whizzer, followed by the asperger, with his medicine bowl and aspergill and wearing a chaplet of green cottonwood leaves on his long, glossy, black hair, they circle the plaza four times, each time stamping heavily on the sipapu board with the right foot, as a signal to the spirits of the underworld that they are about to begin the ceremony. ❋ Hattie Greene Lockett (1921)

He's takin 'trouble to run a whizzer on me -- get me guessin'. ❋ Henry Herbert Knibbs (1909)

"Dutchy's trying to run a whizzer," he remarked, cutting a defiant gash clean across the second pie. ❋ B. M. Bower (1905)

Andrew Carnegie an 'ye've had yeer monthly library allowance, "he said gravely," an' maybe ye could spare a few thousand dollars or cents -- A've no 'got the exact coinage in ma mind -- to help a wee feller buy a new whizzer-wheel. ❋ Edgar Wallace (1903)

It's mighty easy to run a whizzer when you've got the only loaded gun in camp. ❋ Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1901)

It is barely possible that this may have been a whizzer or bull-roarer, such as are used at the present day to imitate the wind, and commonly carried by the performer in a public dance who personifies the warrior. ❋ Jesse Walter Fewkes (1890)

One whizzer which I examined was nine inches long, one and three-fourths inches broad, and about a quarter of an inch thick in the thickest part. ❋ Washington Matthews (1874)