Meaning of thunderstick | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A gun or cannon, especially a rifle, as seen from the imagined perspective of an uncivilized person or an animal.
2. A narrow plastic balloon that is used as a promotional noise maker by hitting one against another.

Examples

“The man pointed his thunderstick at the buffalo, and with a great noise and fire, the buffalo fell down dead.”

“We sneaked into the soldiers' camp, and stole five thundersticks.”

“...the Men, when they hunt us with their arrows or a thunder-stick which strikes with a loud noise...”

“Two men with beards... carrying thundersticks... were in the village above...”

“We have heard that they have magic thunder sticks; that all they need do is point the stick at a man and thunder and lightning comes out of it and the man dies.”

“(Two bears discussing a rifle found lying on the ground): Thunderstick? ...You actually said 'Thunderstick?'... That, my friend, is a Winchester 30.06.”

“...the captain of the vessel ordered a crew member to fire the thunderstick, as ancestors called the gun. Word of bearded White men and their thundersticks was carried inland to other Indians.”

“Called “James Tenney and Milton Babbitt : American Iconoclasts,” the mini-festival begins on Saturday with a work by Mr. Tenney, who died in 2006, on a program including pieces by Larry Polansky, Michael Byron and Henry Cowell (the 1925 “Ensemble” for string quartet and thundersticks). Mr. Babbitt is honored on Sunday with a program that includes, among other works, a premiere by Christopher Buchenholz.”

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