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Definition of Guiro
1. Noun. A musical instrument made of a hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side, and played by rubbing a stick or scraper ("pua") along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Guiro
1. a percussion instrument [n -ROS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guiro
Literary usage of Guiro
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Narrative of the Expedition Sent by Her Majesty's Government to the River by William Allen, Thomas Richard Heywood Thomson (1848)
"... guiro . inro ohoh tsho . tsho nyah napi . ni na dre ni . nieh nah. ni ...
although different from the Kru and Bassa (guiro, iuro), is exactly the same ..."
2. The Philippines Under Spanish and American Rules by Charles Harcourt Ainslie Forbes-Lindsay (1906)
"... made out of the hollow trunks of trees, the macara, and the guiro, ... but the
guiro (the long calabash shell indented and played upon with a stick) ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Scott Eldon (1827)
"M'guiro (56), Chaworth v. Beech ( 57), and Innes v. Johnson (58). The question
must be determined upon the intention, collected from the whole Will; ..."
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