Definition of trumpet

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Trumpet (v. i.) To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry..

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Sea Trumpet :: Sea trumpet () A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long..
Harridan :: Harridan (n.) A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag.
Raucity :: Raucity (n.) Harshness of sound; rough utterance; hoarseness; as, the raucity of a trumpet, or of the human voice..
Venturer :: Venturer (n.) A strumpet; a prostitute.
Sackbut :: Sackbut (n.) A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone..
Tuba :: Tuba (n.) An ancient trumpet.
Harlotry :: Harlotry (n.) A harlot; a strumpet; a baggage.
Slide :: Slide (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.
Trompe :: Trompe (n.) A trumpet; a trump.
Levet :: Levet (n.) A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.
Trump :: Trump (v. i.) To blow a trumpet.
Blow :: Blow (v. t.) To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ..
Conch :: Conch (n.) In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet..
Trumpetweed :: Trumpetweed (n.) An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads..
Tap :: Tap (n.) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, -- usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo..
Waistcoateer :: Waistcoateer (n.) One wearing a waistcoat; esp., a woman wearing one uncovered, or thought fit for such a habit; hence, a loose woman; strumpet..
Trumpeted :: Trumpeted (imp. & p. p.) of Trumpe.
Trumpet :: Trumpet (n.) A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone..
Trumpeting :: Trumpeting (n.) A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft.
Strumpet :: Strumpet (n.) A prostitute; a harlot.
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