musicstick

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nounmusicstick (plural musicsticks)

plural musicsticks · alternative music-stick

AustraliaA kind of drumstick used by striking one against another, to maintain rhythm in Aboriginal voice chants.
The camp was silent save for clicking of music-sticks in the distant native camp […]
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 88
Synonyms: clapper, clapstick

nounA kind of drumstick used by striking one against another, to maintain rhythm in Aboriginal voice chants.

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