castanet

/kas-tuh-net/US // ˌkæs təˈnɛt //

蓖麻网,蓖麻网络,铸网,蓖麻籽网

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : either of a pair of concave pieces of wood held in the palm of the hand and clicked together, usually to accompany dancing.

By the end of that time his tongue was making sounds like a muffled castanet, and his resolution was scorched out of him.
He shook the door by the iron handle until the latch clattered like a castanet: there was no sound from within.
Where the two were missing he carried the stem of his pipe, and when he talked the stem clicked, like a Castanet.
Again he clinks his metal castanet, and leads us leisurely away.
And now the trio was a trio of castanet smacks and cymbal claps.