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noun

Roarer n.

One who, or that which, roars. Specifically:

(a)

A riotous fellow; a roaring boy. "A lady to turn roarer, and break glasses."

(b)

(Far.) A horse subject to roaring. See Roaring, 2.

(Zool.) The barn owl. (Prov. Eng.)

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Etymology of 'Roarer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Roarer" Quotes from Famous Books

... draughts of blood. They met with twenty or thirty other darkened and unclean people, all dressed in dingy colours that would not show the dirt, in a little brick-built chapel equipped with a spavined roarer of a harmonium, and there solaced their minds on the thought that all that was fair and free in life, all that struggled, all that planned and made, all pride and beauty and honour, all fine and enjoyable things, were irrevocably ...

— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... ship's company slep' on deck as usual—officers as well—all but the cap'n, who had gone ashore. It was a tremendous hot night, an' a good deal darker than usual. There was one man in the ship named Wilson; but we called him Bob Roarer, because of a habit he had of speakin' an' sometimes roarin' in his sleep. Bob lay between me an' the purser that night, an' we slep' on all right till it was getting pretty late, though there was two or three ...

— Fighting the Flames • R.M. Ballantyne

Words linked to "Roarer" : communicator, screamer, shouter, crier, roar, screecher, yeller, bawler