Bugle

Quick meaning: Bugle is a noun meaning A horn used by hunters.

Meaning

A horn used by hunters.

More Meanings

1. (music) A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
2. The sound of something that bugles.
3. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
4. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.
5. (fashion) A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
6. A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
7. (obsolete) jet-black

Example Sentences

the bugle of an elk

a hunting horn, origin. made of the horn of a "bugle" or wild ox

Then tooke that squire an horne of bugle small, Which hong adowne his side in twisted gold And tassels gay.

“It was as though the very constellations knew our impending sorrow,” he bugled, his head raised to the ceiling, his voice full-throated.

Word Forms

• bugles
• bugling
• bugled

Synonyms for bugle

Depending on context, synonyms include trumpet, bugleweed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bugleweed, bugler, clarion, chipset, crunch, chips.

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