ˌbugle-ˈhorn
[f. bugle n.1 + horn n.]
The horn of a bugle or wild ox, used † a. as a drinking vessel. Obs.
| c 1386 Chaucer Frankl. T. 525 Ianus..drynketh of his bugle horn the uyn. 1387 Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. i. 293 Ȝif þe water of þat welle is i-take in bugle horn [in cornu bubali]. 1519 W. Horman Vulg. 166 b, Preciouse cuppis be made of bugull hornys. |
b. as a musical instrument, whence = bugle n.1 2.
| c 1300 K. Alis. 5282 Tweye bugle hornes, and a bowe also. 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. ccix. 192 Two squyers blewe..with ij grete bugles hornes. c 1630 Risdon Surv. Devon §222 (1810) 231 His family bare in a field Gules, a bugle horn or. 1808 Scott Marm. i. iii, His bugle-horn he blew. 1842 Tennyson Locksley Hall 2 Sound upon the bugle horn. |