Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.
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- noun music An old
wind instrument of thedouble bassoon kind, havingventages but notkeys .
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Examples
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I have seen several bobcats, or canadian lynx both found here in western Washington, I have stood on the deck and had lynx within arms reach. wife was feeding blue jays and the rackett they made pulled the tom in, he was watching the birds and me but was not worried enough to leave without a bird.
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I have seen several bobcats, or canadian lynx both found here in western Washington, I have stood on the deck and had lynx within arms reach. wife was feeding blue jays and the rackett they made pulled the tom in, he was watching the birds and me but was not worried enough to leave without a bird.
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The music shook the very house; the bass rackett vibrated in the walls.
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A fine consort, wanting nothing; there must be cornets and sackbuts, crumhorns and regals, and a great bass rackett — aye, and dulcians, too.
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DA Andrew Thomas and his assistant Lisa somebody all had a BIG rackett going.
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DA Andrew Thomas and his assistant Lisa somebody all had a BIG rackett going.
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