warakabra

warakabra

English

Noun

warakabra (plural warakabras)

1. Alternative form of waracabra
   • 1949, Path-finding on the Mazaruni: The Journal of Six Expeditions on the Banks of the Mazaruni River in British Guiana in Search of an Alignment for a Road Or Railway During the Years 1922, 1923 and 1924:

     Saturday, December 2 — This morning I was awakened by a great noise of running and shouting on the part of the men as well as by the shrill frightened cries of a flock of warakabras or trumpet-birds.

   • 1973, Nicholas Guppy, A young man's journey (John Murray Publishers Ltd):

     I knew warakabras — the trumpeter birds, large flocks of which we frequently encountered wandering over the jungle floor. But I had only vaguely heard of warakabra tigers. 'Tigers' was a term which included nearly all wild carnivores, most of ...

   • 2014, Hamley Case, The Balata Sisters, Paragon Publishing (→ISBN), page 62:

     “I'm starving and feel like eating something with a head and legs and not berries or peppers or seeds.” “Okay, let's go towards the falls, but quietly. The warakabras move around in flocks and have good hearing. The young ones drink a lot and ...”