くだ

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Japanese

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a pipe or tube, such as that made of bamboo, wood, metal, or rubber
a pirn or bobbin that hold the thread within a weaving shuttle (from the way the earliest shuttles were made from bamboo tubes)
spool onto which thread is reeled on a spinning wheel
(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)
an agricultural tool used to thresh cut rice stalks
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
(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.)