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.
Trumpet(n.) A trumpeter.
Trumpet(n.) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
Trumpet(n.) A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
Trumpet(v. i.) To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.
Trumpet(v. t.) To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.
Trumpeted(imp. & p. p.) of Trumpet
Trumpeter(n.) One who sounds a trumpet.
Trumpeter(n.) One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces.
Trumpeter(n.) Any one of several species of long-legged South American birds of the genus Psophia, especially P. crepitans, which is abundant, and often domesticated and kept with other poultry by the natives. They are allied to the cranes. So called from their loud cry. Called also agami, and yakamik.
Trumpeter(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon.
Trumpeter(n.) An American swan (Olor buccinator) which has a very loud note.
Trumpeter(n.) A large edible fish (Latris hecateia) of the family Cirrhitidae, native of Tasmania and New Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish.
Trumpeting(n.) A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft.
Trumpeting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trumpet
Trumpets(n. pl.) A plant (Sarracenia flava) with long, hollow leaves.
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