bu|gle

bu|gle¹ «BYOO guhl», noun, verb, -gled, -gling.

–n.

1. a musical instrument like a small trumpet, made of brass or copper, that has no keys or valves. Bugles can play only a few tones within a limited range and have long been used in military forces for sounding calls and orders. Some bugles have been built with valves so that they can play a complete scale. »

Blow, bugle, blow, Set the wild echoes flying (Tennyson).

2. a hunting horn.

–v.i.

to blow a bugle.

–v.t.

to direct or summon by blowing on a bugle.

╂[Middle English bugle horn < bugle wild ox < Old French, learned borrowing from Latin būculus (diminutive) < bōs ox]

bu|gle² «BYOO guhl», noun.

= bugleweed. (Cf. ↑bugleweed)

╂[< Old French bugle; origin unknown]

bu|gle³ «BYOO guhl», noun.

a long, tubular, glass bead, usually black, used as a trimming on dresses.

╂[perhaps < bugle¹ in sense of “tube”]