Crotʹalum.
A sort of castanet, rattled in dancing. Aristophaʹnēs calls a great talker krotʹalon (a clack).
A sort of castanet, rattled in dancing. Aristophaʹnēs calls a great talker krotʹalon (a clack).
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.