babracot
A grate used by some native South Americans to roast meat.
Noun
- A grate used by some native South Americans to roast meat.
- Before they leave a temporary camp in the forest, where they have killed a tapir and dried the meat on a babracot, the Indians of Guiana invariably destroy this babracot. - 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 236
Forms
Verb
- To roast on the babracot.
- Should a tapir passing that way find traces of the slaughter of one of his kind, he would come by night on the next occasion when Indians slept at that place, and, taking a man, would babracot him in revenge. - 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 236