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.)