Definition of "lamenter" []

• One who laments. (noun)

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• "Slide 43: • All this the "lamenter" should do for the three or four days."
• "Slide 33: • The "lamenter" now takes off his moccasins and even his breech cloth, and he walks alone up to the top of the mountain, holding his pipe in front of him, and carrying a buffalo robe which he will use at night."
• "Slide 32: • All this time the other helper has been making a bed of sage at the center, so that when the "lamenter" is tired he may lie with his head against the center and his feet stretching towards the east."