bugler

Variant of bugle

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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