bugle
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bugle1
▶noun (also bugle-horn) a brass instrument like a small trumpet, traditionally used for military signals. ▶verb sound a bugle.
– derivatives
bugler noun.
bugler noun.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘wild ox’): via OFr. from L. buculus, dimin. of bos ‘ox’; hence bugle-horn, denoting the horn of an ox used to give signals.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bugle2 (N. Amer. also bugleweed)
▶noun a creeping plant with blue flowers on upright stems. [Ajuga reptans and other species.]
– origin ME: from late L. bugula.
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bugle3
▶noun an ornamental tube-shaped bead.
– origin C16: of unknown origin.
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