bugle-horn

  • 1Bugle horn — Bu gle horn 1. A bugle. [1913 Webster] One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 2. A drinking vessel made of horn. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] And drinketh of his bugle horn the wine. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 2bugle horn — noun Etymology: bugle (II) : bugle 2 * * * bugle horn, a bugle or hunting horn …

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  • 3bugle-horn — būˈgle horn noun 1. A horn used as a drinking vessel or hunting horn 2. A treble instrument with or without keys, usu made of copper, similar to the trumpet, but having the bell less expanded and the tube shorter and more conical, used more for… …

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  • 4bugle — [ bygl ] n. m. • 1836; mot angl., empr. a. fr.→ beugler ♦ Instrument à vent à pistons (cuivres) utilisé notamment dans les fanfares. ⇒ clairon, cornet, trompette. ● bugle nom féminin (latin médiéval bugula) Labiée des bois humides, aux fleurs d… …

    Encyclopédie Universelle

  • 5bugle — (Del fr. bugle, este del ingl. bugle [horn], cuerno de caza, porque se hacía con cuerno de búfalo, y este del lat. bucŭlus, buey joven). m. Instrumento musical de viento, formado por un largo tubo cónico de metal, arrollado de distintas maneras y …

    Diccionario de la lengua española

  • 6Bugle (instrument) — Bugler redirects here. For the tobacco brand, see Bugler (tobacco).The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments; having no valves or other pitch altering devices. All pitch control is done by varying the player s embouchure, since the bugle …

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  • 7bugle — bugle1 bugler, n. /byooh geuhl/, n., v., bugled, bugling. n. 1. a brass wind instrument resembling a cornet and sometimes having keys or valves, used typically for sounding military signals. v.i. 2. to sound a bugle. 3. (of bull elks) to utter a… …

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  • 8bugle — [14] Bugle originally meant ‘buffalo’ or ‘bull’. It comes via Old French bugle from Latin būculus, a diminutive form of bos ‘ox’ (a relative of English cow). It was used from the early 14th century in the compound bugle horn, denoting a bull’s… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 9bugle — [14] Bugle originally meant ‘buffalo’ or ‘bull’. It comes via Old French bugle from Latin būculus, a diminutive form of bos ‘ox’ (a relative of English cow). It was used from the early 14th century in the compound bugle horn, denoting a bull’s… …

    Word origins

  • 10bugle — bugle1 noun (also bugle horn) a brass instrument like a small trumpet, traditionally used for military signals. verb sound a bugle. Derivatives bugler noun Origin ME (in the sense wild ox ): via OFr. from L. buculus, dimin. of bos ox ; hence… …

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