くだ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of くだ – see the following entry.
【管】4
[noun] a pipe or tube, such as that made of bamboo, wood, metal, or rubber
[noun] a pirn or bobbin that hold the thread within a weaving shuttle (from the way the earliest shuttles were made from bamboo tubes)
[noun] spool onto which thread is reeled on a spinning wheel
[noun] (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] an agricultural tool used to thresh cut rice stalks
[noun] 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.)
For a list of all kanji read as くだ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as くだ.)
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