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roarer

  • a word derived from roar.

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They admit no more than that their horse is a "roarer," i.e., an animal who clears his ears, nose and throat with a sound like a bull alligator with his tail caught in a trap.

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And when there is boasting to be done, Bill will talk as loud and as long as any ring-tailed roarer that ever lived.

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When he died of cancer of the stomach in 1885, the old roarer left his ranch in good hands.

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Hank Williams Jr. has a roarer going on over at a big spread near Nashville.

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Heaven forbid!" rejoined Christopher; "We do not want this quarreller and roarer.

From Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians by Velde, Carl Franz van der