sackbut

[ sak-buht ]

/ ˈsækˌbʌt /

noun

a medieval form of the trombone.

Bible. an ancient stringed musical instrument. Dan. 3.

Nearby words

sack out, sack race, sack suit, sack time, sackable, sackbut, sackcloth, sackcloth and ashes, sacker, sackful, sacking

Origin of sackbut

1495–1505; < Middle French saquebute, earlier saqueboute, saquebot(t)e orig., a kind of hooked lance, apparently with saque (it) pulls (see saccade); identity of 2nd element uncertain

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Examples from the Web for sackbut

At last one day he remembered the walnut which Sackbut had given him.
The Blue Rose Fairy Book|Maurice Baring
Here the pdalle is the bass pommer, or hautbois, and the sackbut is indicated as second bass or basse-contre.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4|Various
He and his fellows sound the sackbut, whose notes are more doleful than the notes of other music are.
Bunyan Characters (Second Series)|Alexander Whyte
But she recovered rapidly after her marriage, her eyes grew brighter, we saw less of Sackbut's "delicious skeleton."
Certain Personal Matters|H. G. Wells

Among them are the Psaltery of various shapes, the Sambuca or sackbut, the single and double Chorus, &c.
Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages|Edward Lewes Cutts

British Dictionary definitions for sackbut

sackbut

/ (ˈsækˌbʌt) /

noun

a medieval form of trombone

Word Origin for sackbut

C16: from French saqueboute, from Old French saquer to pull + bouter to push; see butt ³: used in the Bible (Daniel 3) as a mistranslation of Aramaic sabb'ka stringed instrument

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