Sounded the whistle?

• "A tutor who ___ the flute . . . "
• Blew the horn
• Used a hewgag
• Played the horn
• Sounded, like a horn
• Blew the whistle
• Sounded, as a toy train
• Honked (horn)
• Blew one's horn

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vb. (en-past of: toot )