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sackbut
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A sackbut is a type of trombone from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, characterised by a telescopic slide that is used to vary the length of the tube to change pitch . Unlike the earlier slide trumpet from which it evolved, the sackbut possesses a double ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
medieval wind instrument, c.1500, from French saquebute , a bass trumpet with a slide like a trombone; presumably identical with Old North French saqueboute (14c.), "a lance with an iron hook for pulling down mounted men," said to be from Old North French ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sackbut \Sack"but\, n. [F. saquebute, OF. saqueboute a sackbut, earlier, a sort of hook attached to the end of a lance used by foot soldiers to unhorse cavalrymen; prop. meaning, pull and push; fr. saquier, sachier, to pull, draw (perhaps originally, to ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context music English) A brass instrument from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance%20music and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque%20music Eras, and an ancestor of the modern trombone. It was derived from the medieval slide trumpet.
Usage examples of sackbut.
The Tourney Field was filled with harmonies played on sackbut and serpent, on ophicleide, gittern, and lute.
He and his fellows sound the sackbut, whose notes are more doleful than the notes of other music are.
Two of them played a fast-paced dirge on an electric sackbut and an out-of-tune finger harp.
He was about to say more when the music of hornpipe, shawm, and sackbut started up.
The iyth Baron Sackbut occupies the private wing with his young second wife, Rosemary, nee Wystan.
And so it remained until shortly before the Rumpole visit when Jonathan Sackbut, thirteen years old and on holiday from Eton, was taking Monty the family Labrador for an early run by the lake.
The boy ran home to tell his father and stepmother, for Jonathan was the son of Lord Sackbut by his first and divorced wife.
In due course, the police, the ambulance, the pathologist, Dr Matthew Malkin, and Lord Sackbut himself, gathered by the lake.
When we reached it, we found it comfortably furnished, with chairs and sofas, a big fireplace and family pictures on the walls, a line of Sackbut faces, predominantly male.
Richard Sackbut had finally appeared and turned out to be a man, perhaps in his late forties, whose long chin, gingery hair and blue eyes were echoed in all the family portraits we had seen.
As he said it, I thought that the Welldyke coroner had absolutely no intention of helping Lord Sackbut who had never invited him beyond the door marked private.
I took a turn round the gardens and the found my host in the stables, talking to a girl in jodhpurs bout the lameness of one of the horses, whose solemn faces,, peering over their stable doors, put me in mind of the portrait the Sackbut family.
She was no longer married to the late Lord Sackbut, so she would have had no claim.
Can you tell the Jury why this old lady had that photograph in her possession when she came visiting Sackbut Castle?
As soon as it was given, the court rose, the room emptied and Lord Sackbut was left alone in it with the woman who had been dead to him so long.