bugle
noun
[ ˈbjuːɡ(ə)l ]
• a brass instrument like a small trumpet, typically without valves or keys and used for military signals.
• "the bugle sounded the charge"
bugle
verb
• sound a bugle.
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.
bugle
noun
• a creeping Eurasian plant of the mint family, with blue flowers held on upright stems.
Origin:
Middle English: from late Latin bugula .
bugle
noun
• an ornamental tube-shaped glass or plastic bead sewn on to clothing.
Origin:
late 16th century: of unknown origin.
