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bu·gle

1   [byoo-guhl] noun, verb, -gled, -gling.
noun
1.
a brass wind instrument resembling a cornet and sometimes having keys or valves, used typically for sounding military signals.
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verb (used without object)
2.
to sound a bugle.
3.
(of bull elks) to utter a rutting call.

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verb (used with object)
4.
to call by or with a bugle: to bugle reveille.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English bugle (horn) instrument made of an ox horn < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin būculus bullock, young ox, equivalent to bū- variant stem of bōs ox + -culus -cle1

Related forms
bu·gler, noun
Example Sentences
  • On board a man-of-war the bugle and the boatswain's pipe are employed to avoid the noise and confusion of shouted orders.
  • As a boy, my father learned to play the bugle from the bugler in my grandfather's horse cavalry squadron.
  • She sets out a long table with antique silver bowls filled with color-coded candies and bugle beads and vintage fabrics.
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bu·gle

2   [byoo-guhl]
noun
ajuga.
Origin:
1225–75; Middle English < Old French < Medieval Latin bugula a kind of plant

bu·gle

3   [byoo-guhl]
noun
1.
Also called bugle bead. a tubular glass bead used for ornamenting dresses.
adjective
2.
Also, bu·gled. ornamented with bugles.
Origin:
1570–80; of obscure origin
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bugle1 (ˈbjuːɡəl)
 
—n
1.  music a brass instrument similar to the cornet but usually without valves: used for military fanfares, signal calls, etc
 
—vb
2.  (intr) to play or sound (on) a bugle
 
[C14: short for bugle horn ox horn (musical instrument), from Old French bugle, from Latin būculus young bullock, from bōs ox]
 
'bugler1
 
—n

bugle2 (ˈbjuːɡəl)
 
—n
See also ground pine Also called: bugleweed any of several Eurasian plants of the genus Ajuga, esp A. reptans, having small blue or white flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
 
[C13: from Late Latin bugula, of uncertain origin]

bugle3 (ˈbjuːɡəl)
 
—n
a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes for decoration
 
[C16: of unknown origin]

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bugle
mid-14c., abbreviation of buglehorn "drinking horn, hunting horn" (c.1300), from O.Fr. bugle "wild ox, buffalo," from L. buculus "heifer, young ox," dim. of bos "ox, cow" (see cow).
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