Verb (used without object) : to roar at a joke. ,The automobile roared away. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to roar denials. ,to roar oneself hoarse. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : the roar of a lion. ,the roar of the surf; the roar of lively conversation from the crowded party. ,a roar of laughter; a roar of approval from the audience. From Dictionary.com.
A thing we called a roarer; I don't know whether they have such things now. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Montfort] Reference
Shahal (the "roarer"), the mature lion (Job 4: 10; Ps. 91: 13. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Commerzbank, what a rip-roarer of a day, up more than 6 percent. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2009] Reference
But before that, he was a roarer, and he drank just an enormous amount. From Wordnik.com. [You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton Years] Reference
The lion on the pedestal implies that Nadini, or “roarer” may be her true name. From Wordnik.com. [Chausath Yogini Temple - Inventory of Goddesses and Gods | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context] Reference
A sound like a single bell chime followed by the growl of a bull-roarer suddenly came to our ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Oberon]
The sound had the fullness of a baritone, rhythmic and slow, the noise of a bull-roarer, booming from that massive diaphragm. From Wordnik.com. [The Skrayling Tree]
"A roarer, by all means!" said young Merryweather. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Montfort] Reference
Rudra means not the roarer but the red or shining one. From Wordnik.com. [Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2] Reference
The memory of the old hag and the bull-roarer was in my mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
By this time the bull-roarer had ceased to bellow among the rocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Taboo] Reference
"That appeals ter me as a ring-tailed roarer of a good idee," announced. From Wordnik.com. [The Border Boys Across the Frontier] Reference
Forgets the VUE was GMs 1st soft roarer (CUV) both old platform and new. From Wordnik.com. [Autoblog] Reference
"Well so, my bully roarer, and what now?" demanded the plump man, softly. From Wordnik.com. [Black Bartlemy's Treasure] Reference
"Let's have the roarer by way of a finish -- what d'ye say, my hearties?". From Wordnik.com. [Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend] Reference
Lucy murmured a word of excuse, and bore the splendid roarer out of the room. From Wordnik.com. [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference
"Miss Montfort," he said, speaking in a low tone, "do you remember the roarer?". From Wordnik.com. [Fernley House] Reference
Bobbet, a three-inch brook or a ten-footer? which is the tearer? which is the roarer?. From Wordnik.com. [Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor] Reference
Let us see the best roarer that ever strained his lungs for twelve pence out-mouth me!. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
"Get your shoulder well under it, Big; shove down well, Sep, and we shall have such a roarer.". From Wordnik.com. [Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore] Reference
As it was, it was bellows to mend; and Calcott's roarer roared as surely roarer never roared before. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour] Reference
There was a faint cheer at this, followed by another, and then by one which Murray said was a regular "roarer.". From Wordnik.com. [Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop] Reference
As the procession moved on, an old bald-headed man touched each boy solemnly on the chin and brow with a bull-roarer. From Wordnik.com. [The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia] Reference
Then an old man takes a bull-roarer and taps with it on the bamboo tube, naming all the sorcerers in the neighbouring villages. From Wordnik.com. [The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia] Reference
But he was a roarer, a grumbler; he bawled and ordained, in order to encourage industry and keep his lambs from asking for "raises.". From Wordnik.com. [The Job An American Novel] Reference
In North and South America the bull roarer, on the other hand, is used, not to avert, but magically to produce thunder and lightning. From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
On no account should a lady ride a roarer, although the artful dealer may assure her that the "whistle" which the animal makes, will be. From Wordnik.com. [The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.] Reference
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