RAIN STICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rain stick mean? 

• RAIN STICK (noun)
  The noun RAIN STICK has 1 sense:

1. a percussion instrument that is made from a dried cactus branch that is hollowed out and filled with small pebbles and capped at both ends; makes the sound of falling rain when tilted; origin was in Chile where tribesmen used it in ceremonies to bring rain

  Familiarity information: RAIN STICK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAIN STICK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A percussion instrument that is made from a dried cactus branch that is hollowed out and filled with small pebbles and capped at both ends; makes the sound of falling rain when tilted; origin was in Chile where tribesmen used it in ceremonies to bring rain

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("rain stick" is a kind of...):

percussion instrument; percussive instrument (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another)