GR translation: the stick-rattle of rifle fire

[Mark Kohut]

A stick-rattle, of American Indian make, exists:

Bulletin - United States National Museum - Page 16
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Occasionally the beater was robbed across the teeth like a notched stick
rattle. Among the Ute Indians several notched stick rattles are used as an
accompaniment to the bear dance, held in the spring when the bear comes
from its hibernation.

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On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 2:13 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Jochen, Protomen, and Robert.
>
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 1:49 AM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's something of a cliche to refer to the "rattle" of automatic-weapons
>> fire.  This phrase uses the word in a way that's new again.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 3:04 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> When I read that I thought of the noise you make walking along a fence
>>> and running a stick over the bars.
>>>
>>> 2016-03-25 8:00 GMT+01:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> V730.20-24, P744.38-745.3   “There.” Beside the road, a prone body.
>>>> It’s Mieczislav Omuzire, with a bad head wound. “Get him in, come on.” They
>>>> load him into the back of the idling truck, and cover him with a shelter
>>>> half. No time to find out how bad it is. The blackface sentry has vanished
>>>> for good. From the direction they’re backing in comes the stick-rattle of
>>>> rifle fire.
>>>>
>>>> Does "stick-rattle" here refer to the infant toy?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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