bugle1

 
Pronunciation: /ˈbjuːg(ə)l/

noun

  • (also bugle-horn) a brass instrument like a small trumpet, typically without valves or keys and used for military signals: the bugle sounded the charge [as modifier]: a bugle call

verb

[no object]
  • sound a bugle.
  • [with object] sound (a note or call) on a bugle: he bugled a warning

Derivatives

bugler

Pronunciation: /ˈbjuːglə/
noun

Origin:

Middle English: via Old French from Latin buculus, diminutive of bos 'ox'. The early English sense was 'wild ox', hence the compound bugle-horn, denoting the horn of an ox used to give signals, originally in hunting