When Shakespeare wrote "What cares these roarers for the name of king," he was using, as students of his language never tire of pointing out to us, a perfectly correct local grammatical form.

The word means the "Little roarer" (1498).

, like the Greeks, Australians, Africans, Maoris, and many other, races, use the bull-roarer, turndun, or rhombosa piece of wood which, being whirled round, causes a strange windy roarin their mystic ceremonies.