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noun
A device reportedly used by the Catuquinaru to communicate, consisting of a wooden drum, filled with various materials and half-buried; when one was beaten, the vibrations (travelling through the earth) could be heard on the devices in other villages up to 1.5 km away.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Borrowed from Catuquinaru cambarysu.
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