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   bugle

   /ˈbjuːɡl/

   noun

   • 1. a brass instrument like a small trumpet, typically without valves or keys and used for military signals: "the bugle sounded the charge"

   verb

   • 1. sound a bugle.
   • ▪ sound (a note or call) on a bugle: "he bugled a warning"

   Word 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.

   Derivatives

   • 1. bugler noun

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • B

     3

   • U

     1

   • G

     2

   • L

     1

   • E

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