くだ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of くだ – see the following entry.
【管】4
[noun] [from 1254] a pipe or tube, such as that made of bamboo, wood, metal, or rubber
[noun] [from late 800s, early 900s] a pirn or bobbin that holds the thread within a weaving shuttle (from the way the earliest shuttles were made from bamboo tubes)
[noun] [from 1603] a spool or bobbin onto which thread is wound on a spinning wheel
[noun] [from 720] (military) short for 管の笛 (kuda no fue): a kind of small pipe or flute used for signalling during a battle, similar to a fife
[noun] [from late 1600s] an agricultural tool used to thresh cut rice stalks
[noun] [from late 1700s] short for 管狐 (kudagitsune): a kind of mythical fox roughly the size of a weasel, that would live in bamboo stalks and make prophecies of the future
Alternative spelling
莩
(This term, くだ (kuda), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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