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The definition of a bugle is a brass horn instrument like a trumpet without keys or valves.

(noun)

An example of a bugle is what is played on a military base to wake the trainees.

To bugle is defined as to play a bugle.

(verb)

An example of bugle is to blow on a short brass horn.

See bugle in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a brass instrument like a trumpet but smaller, and usually without keys or valves: used chiefly for military calls and signals

Origin: ME, wild ox, drinking horn, hunting horn < OFr < L buculus, heifer, young ox, dim. of bos, ox, cow

intransitive verb, transitive verb bugled, bugling

to call or signal by or as by blowing a bugle

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bugler noun

noun

a long, tubular glass or plastic bead for trimming dresses, etc.

Origin: < ? bugle (from the appearance)

adjective

trimmed with bugles

also bugled

noun

any of a genus (Ajuga) of plants of the mint family, having spikes of white, pink, or blue flowers and often used for ground cover; ajuga

Origin: ME & OFr < LL bugula, for L bugillo, a plant

See bugle in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
Music

A brass wind instrument somewhat shorter than a trumpet and lacking keys or valves.

intransitive verb bu·gled, bu·gling, bu·gles

Music To sound a bugle.
To give forth a deep, prolonged sound similar to the bay of a hound.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old French

Origin: , from Latin būculus, steer

Origin: , diminutive of bōs, ox; see g^wou- in Indo-European roots

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buˈgler noun

noun

A tubular glass or plastic bead used to trim clothing.

Origin:

Origin: Origin unknown

noun

Any of several creeping Old World herbs of the genus Ajuga in the mint family, having opposite leaves, square stems, and terminal spikes of purplish to white flowers. Also called bugleweed.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old French

Origin: , from Late Latin būgula (perhaps influenced by būglōssa, bugloss)

Origin: , from Latin būgillō

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