bugle
IPA: bjˈugʌɫ
noun
- A horn used by hunters.
- A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
- The sound of something that bugles.
- A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
- A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
- A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
- A village in Treverbyn parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0158).
verb
- To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.
adjective
- (obsolete) jet-black
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Examples of "bugle" in Sentences
- The fanfare gives the bugle call.
- Bugle is a brass musical instrument.
- Instantly the bugles sounded the assault.
- The bugles sound louder and more strident.
- Then the bugles blew the signal to attack.
- Each holds a bugle that dangles a pennant.
- At this instant the signal of the bugle was heard.
- At the blare of the bugle, the cannons stopped firing from the galley.
- He played the soprano bugle in 1985, and the mellophone bugle in 1987.
- As a boy scout, he played the bugle and was in the local scout bugle band.
- During the middle ages, the word "bugle" was applied to the ox and also to its horns, whether used as musical instruments or for drinking.
- English name "bugle" is also given to a common labiate plant, the _Ajuga reptans_, not to be confused with the "Bugloss" or _Anchusa officinalis_.
- I received that bugle from a brave Scot who dwells amongst the eastern mountains; and who gave it to me to assure the earl of Mar that I came from him.
- The music of the evening bugle is still a pleasant note in my ears, as well as that of the eight o'clock curfew bell, from the tower of Old St Nicholas.
- These parties conceal themselves at their respective stations, remain silent, and wait for the signal from the bugle, which is to be given at the hour of daybreak.
- The bugle is a warning sounds from 13th century to warn of an ivasion ... as the war was approaching an arrow struck the trumpeters throught and the song ends apprutly mid note.
- Without possessing the volume of classical bass voices, the tone of it was pleasing from a slightly muffled quality like that of an English bugle, which is firm and sweet, strong but velvety.
- F. Godefroy [9] gives quotations from early F.ench which show that, as in England, the word bugle was frequently used as an adjective, and as a verb: -- "IIII cors buglieres fist soner de randon" (_Quatre fils Aymon_, ed.P. Tarbé, p. 32), and "I grant cor buglerenc fit en sa tor soner" (_Aiol_,
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