Meaning of gourd rattle | Babel Free
Definitions
A rattle made from a hollowed-out dried gourd into which dried seeds or gravel is placed.
Examples
“He made gourd-rattles (known in ever so many parts of the world) in which he rattled dried seeds or small pebbles with a most beguiling and rain-like insistence; or sometimes, like⟳ the priests of Baal in the Bible, he would cut⟳ himself with knives till the blood fell upon the ground in great drops suggestive of an oncoming thunder-shower.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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