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sackbut
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 put into a bag or take out from a bag; see
Sack a bag) + bouter to push (see Butt to thrust). The
name was given to the musical instrument from its being
lengthened and shortened.] (Mus.)
A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived
that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone
required; -- said to be the same as the trombone. [Written
also sagbut.]
--Moore (Encyc. of Music).
Note: The sackbut of the Scriptures is supposed to have been a stringed instrument.
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 saquier "to pull, draw" + bouter "to thrust," from Germanic *buton (see butt (v.)). Originally in English with many variant spellings, including sagbutt, shakbott, shagbush.\n
\nIn Dan. iii:5, used wrongly to translate Aramaic sabbekha, name of a stringed instrument (translated correctly in Septuagint as sambuke, and in Vulgate as sambuca, both names of stringed instruments, and probably ultimately cognate with the Aramaic word). The error began with Coverdale (1535), who evidently thought it was a wind instrument and rendered it with shawm; the Geneva translators, evidently following Coverdale, chose sackbut because it sounded like the original Aramaic word, and this was followed in KJV and Revised versions.
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.
WordNet
n. a medieval musical instrument resembling a trombone
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 slide, which allows for playing scales in a lower range. Sackbuts adjust tuning at the joint between the bell and slide. The sackbut differs from modern trombones by its smaller, more cylindrically-proportioned bore, its less-flared bell, and in the lack of a leadpipe, water key, slide lock, and tuning slide on the bell curve.
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.