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.”

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