bugle1
[byoo-guh l]
- a brass wind instrument resembling a cornet and sometimes having keys or valves, used typically for sounding military signals.
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- to sound a bugle.
- (of bull elks) to utter a rutting call.
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- to call by or with a bugle: to bugle reveille.
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Origin of bugle1
1250–1300; Middle English bugle (horn) instrument made of an ox horn < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin būculus bullock, young ox, equivalent to bū- variant stem of bōs ox + -culus -cle1
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Contemporary Examples
A $3 pouch of Bugler ends up retailing inside for about $600—a 20,000% markup.
Historical Examples
Then some one—who it was is uncertain—ordered the bugler to sound the "charge."
The Story of the Malakand Field ForceSir Winston S. Churchill
On September 4, 1914, the bugler of Destiny sounded the "Halt!"
It was brought from the headquarters of the regiment by the bugler of Company H.
Three Years in the Federal CavalryWillard Glazier
Most of the men were already upon the spot, and the bugler was blowing lustily.
The Young Franc TireursG. A. Henty
Cleave motioned to the bugler; the latter raised the bugle to his lips.
The Long RollMary Johnston
bugle1
- music a brass instrument similar to the cornet but usually without valves: used for military fanfares, signal calls, etc
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- (intr) to play or sound (on) a bugle
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Word Origin
C14: short for bugle horn ox horn (musical instrument), from Old French bugle, from Latin būculus young bullock, from bōs ox
bugle2
- any of several Eurasian plants of the genus Ajuga, esp A. reptans, having small blue or white flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)Also called: bugleweed See also ground pine
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Word Origin
C13: from Late Latin bugula, of uncertain origin
bugle3
- a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes for decoration
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Word Origin
C16: of unknown origin
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Word Origin and History for bugler
n.
1793; see bugle (n.). Bugle-boy attested from 1817.
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bugle
n.
mid-14c., abbreviation of buglehorn "musical horn, hunting horn" (c.1300), from Old French bugle "(musical) horn," also "wild ox, buffalo," from Latin buculus "heifer, young ox," diminutive of bos "ox, cow" (see cow (n.)). Middle English also had the word in the "buffalo" sense and it survived in dialect with meaning "young bull." Modern French bugle is a 19c. borrowing from English.
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