bugle
noun
a brass wind instrument resembling a cornet and sometimes having keys or valves, used typically for sounding military signals.
have bugled
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present perfectof bugle.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Now, if one faces the board till the bugle blows, there is not then enough time for him to recite, and he is said to have "bugled it."
From The Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, first graduate of color from the U. S. Military Academy by Henry Ossian Flipper
