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sackbut
N เครื่อง เป่า แบบ หนึ่ง ใน ยุค กลาง
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
SACKBUT
n.[The last syllable is the L. buxus. ] A wind instrument of music; a kind of trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
SACKBUT
Sack "but, n. Etym: [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. )
Defn: 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.
New American Oxford Dictionary
sackbut
sack but |ˈsakˌbət ˈsækˌbət | ▶noun an early form of trombone used in Renaissance music. ORIGIN late 15th cent.: from French saquebute, from obsolete saqueboute ‘hook for pulling a man off a horse, ’ from saquer ‘to pull ’ + bouter ‘to hit. ’
Oxford Dictionary
sackbut
sackbut |ˈsakbʌt | ▶noun an early form of trombone used in Renaissance music. ORIGIN late 15th cent.: from French saquebute, from obsolete saqueboute ‘hook for pulling a man off a horse ’, from saquer ‘to pull ’ + bouter ‘to hit ’.
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