thunderstick

[thuhn-der-stik]

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noun

bull-roarer.

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Origin of thunderstick

First recorded in 1960–65; thunder + stick¹

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At night the strangers again killed a duck with the "thunderstick" and drawing their canoe upon the bank made a fire.
Shaggycoat
Clarence Hawkes