bugle-horn

bugle-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 signalling than music
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Main Entry:bugle

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  • Bugle 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

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

  • bugle — [ 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

  • bugle — (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

  • Bugle (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 …   Wikipedia

  • bugle — 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… …   Universalium

  • bugle — [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

  • bugle — [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

  • bugle — 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… …   English new terms dictionary

  • bugle — Synonyms and related words: alpenhorn, alphorn, althorn, alto horn, antlia, bagpipe, ballad horn, baritone, bass horn, bay, beak, beep, beezer, bell, bill, blare, blast, blat, blow, blow a horn, blow the horn, brass choir, brass wind, brass wind… …   Moby Thesaurus

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