war-note
A musical summons to war (poet.). Also fig.
| 1805 Scott Last Minstr. iii. xxvi, The Warder..blew his war-note loud and long. 1816 Byron Ch. Har. iii. xxvi, Wild and high the ‘Cameron's gathering’ rose, The war⁓note of Lochiel. 1897 Edin. Rev. Oct. 399 The old war⁓note of strife for strife's sake has lost something..of its relentless and brutal barbarities. |