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 Roan Barbary.Roaring Boys or Roarers. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Roarer.
 
A broken-winded horse is so called from the noise it makes in breathing.   1
 


 Roan Barbary.Roaring Boys or Roarers. 

 
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