bugle

Definitions


[ˈbjuːɡl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a brass instrument like a small trumpet, typically without valves or keys and used for military signals
(e.g: the bugle sounded the charge)


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Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin buculus, diminutive of bos ‘ox’. The early English sense was ‘wild ox’, hence the compound bugle-horn, denoting the horn of an ox used to give signals, originally in hunting


[ˈbjuːɡl], (Verb)

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- sound a bugle


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Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin buculus, diminutive of bos ‘ox’. The early English sense was ‘wild ox’, hence the compound bugle-horn, denoting the horn of an ox used to give signals, originally in hunting


[ˈbjuːɡl], (Noun)

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- a creeping Eurasian plant of the mint family, with blue flowers held on upright stems


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Origin:
Middle English: from late Latin bugula


[ˈbjuːɡl], (Noun)

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- an ornamental tube-shaped glass or plastic bead sewn on to clothing


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Origin:
late 16th century: of unknown origin




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