dord

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noun

A type of ancient Irish war-horn.

Scrabble 6

Meanings

noundord (plural dords)

plural dords

  1. entertainmentA type of ancient Irish war-horn.

    The dord, a form of horn with a sound like the Australian Aborigine’s didgeridoo, was clearly a sacred instrument of the Bronze Age […]

    2002, Philip Carr-Gomm, Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century, →ISBN, page 64
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    […] there, after digging to a good depth, they find the Dord or great war-horn of Fionn, a blast on which brings “a flock of furious gigantic birds,” and a thigh of one of them is found to be as big as a sheep’s.

    1869, “Folk-lore: Myths and Tales of Various Peoples”, in The London Quarterly & Holborn Review, volume 31, pages 62–63

    […] the first album on which the dord and the didgeridoo could be heard together was entitled: ‘Two stories in One: (Natural Symphonies)’.

    1994, Dirk Schellberg, Didgeridoo: Ritual Origins and Playing Techniques, →ISBN, page 46
  2. ghost wordDensity.

Origin

  1. Irishdord“buzz, drone; dord”
  2. Englishdord

Borrowed from Irish dord (“buzz, drone; dord”).

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