trumpetern.
/ˈtrʌmpɪtə/ 1. One who sounds or plays upon a trumpet; spec. a soldier in a cavalry regiment who gives signals with a trumpet; also, one who has a similar function in a warship (? obsolete); in quot. 1673, a herald.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > signaller or musician
waitc1325
trumpeter1497
drum?1535
drum major1589
trumpettier1609
drum-major general1676
bugler1792
fife-major1802
pipe major1816
Bugle Major1844
signaller1845
bugle boy1848
trumpet-major1855
bugleman1859
bunting-tosser1905
buzzer1915
music1915
society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > [noun] > one who
trumpeter1497
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > wind player > [noun] > trumpeter
bemerc950
trumpc1330
trumpet1390
clarioner1430
claryourc1440
trumpeter1497
trumpera1500
clarionist?1520
blaster?1578
society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > announcer or proclaimer > herald
beadlec1000
herald1377
caller1580
trumpeter1673
1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 326 For their Pasche reward..to Thome Pringil and his brodir trumpatouris, xxviij s.
1533 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 95 To Juliane and the laif of the trumpatouris in Dunbar.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. v. f. 117v The gouernour commaunded the trumpitour to blowe a retraite.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xv. 70 Trumpetters, and those that play vpon winde instruments.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. viii. 35 The Trumpeter is..to attend the Captaines command, and to sound either at his going a shore, or comming aboord, at the entertainment of strangers, also when you hale a ship, when you charge, boord, or enter.
1673 W. Temple Let. to Duke of Florence in Wks. (1731) II. 291 A Trumpeter arrived from Holland, bringing full and entire Powers to the Ambassador of Spain, to treat here of a Peace.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 680 A trumpeter was sent to summon the place.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 654 Keyes..had formerly been trumpeter of the corps.
2. figurative. One who gives the signal for, proclaims, or extols something as by sound of trumpet.
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society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > announcer or proclaimer
teller1340
professora1387
trumpet1447
blazerc1450
denouncer1490
trump1531
ebuccinator1542
declarer1548
proclaimer1548
announcer?1549
trumpet1549
trumpeter1581
blazoner1603
speaker1623
proclamator1650
annunciator1696
proclaimant1837
tooter1863
spruiker1893
spieler1894
society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > [noun] > one who > one who signals, proclaims, or extols something
trumpeter1581
1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise i. f. 20 Thir seditius trumpeters brocht hir maiestie in disdane of the peple.
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered To Rdr. sig. A2 A clamorous trumpetor of his owne praises.
1793 E. Burke Remarks Policy Allies in Wks. (1823) VII. 198 Subordinate instruments and trumpeters of sedition.
1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) (at cited word) His trumpeter is dead, he is therefore forced to sound his own trumpet.
1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1875) III. xi. 33 Osbert, Prior of Westminster, the special trumpeter of Eadward's renown.
3. trumpeter's muscle, †also simply trumpeter (obsolete) = buccinator n.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > muscles of specific parts > [noun] > muscles of cheek or temple
temporal?1541
trumpeter's muscle1615
crotaphite1653
buccinator1657
zygomatic1811
grief-muscles1872
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 754 Muscles..common to the Cheekes and the Lippes are foure, two on either side called Quadratus and Buccinator, the square muscle and the Trumpeter.
1739 Gen. Chirurg. Dict. at Buccinator, in J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. The..Muscle of the Cheek, called the Trumpeter's Muscle.
1875 Sir. W. Turner in Encycl. Brit. I. 837/2 The buccinator..compresses the cheeks, and drives the air out of the cavity of the mouth as in playing a wind instrument; hence the name, ‘trumpeter's muscle’.
4. Applied to:
a. A braying ass. humorous.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > [noun] > equus asinus (ass) > sound made by > braying ass
trumpeter1638
Spanish trumpeter1785
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 133 We jogged leasurely on upon our Portugall Trumpetters,..sometimes braying out.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) The King of Spain's trumpeter, a braying ass.
b. A broken-winded horse: cf. roarer n.1 2.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > horse that wheezes
roarer1778
piper1785
whistler1824
wheezer1831
trumpeter1844
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 227 There are many degrees of broken wind, which receive appellations according to the noise emitted by the horse; and on this account he is called a..trumpeter.
5. Name given to various birds, from their loud note suggesting the sound of a trumpet.† c. ‘An obsolete name in Tasmania for the black Crow-Shrike, Strepera fuliginosa’ (Morris Austral Eng.).
a. A variety of domestic pigeon.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > other types
porcelainc1530
turn-pate1611
light horseman1661
runt1661
smiter1668
helmet1676
mammet1678
Cortbeck1688
turbit1688
turner1688
dragoon1725
finicking1725
Leghorn1725
nun1725
owl1725
petit1725
trumpeter1725
horseman1735
Mahomet1735
barbel1736
turn-tail1736
frill-back1765
blue rock1825
beard1826
ice pigeon1829
toy1831
black1839
skinnum1839
splash1851
whole-feather1851
spangle1854
swallow1854
shield1855
stork pigeon1855
Swabian1855
yellow1855
archangel1867
dragon1867
starling1867
magpie1868
smerle1869
bluette1870
cumulet1876
oriental1876
spot fairy1876
turbiteen1876
blondinette1879
hyacinth1879
Modena pigeon1879
silver-dun1879
silverette1879
silver-mealy1879
swift pigeon1879
Victoria1879
visor1879
ice1881
swallow pigeon1881
velvet fairy1881
priesta1889
frill1890
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pigeon Many sorts of pigeons, such as..Owls, Spots, Trumpeters.
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species i. 21 The trumpeter and laugher, as their names express, utter a very different coo from the other breeds.
b. Any species of the South American genus Psophia or family Psophiidæ, allied to the Cranes.
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the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > member of family Psophiidae (trumpeter)
agami1747
trumpeter1747
trumpet-bird1896
yakamik1921
1747 tr. C.-M. de La Condamine Succinct Abridgm. Voy. S.-Amer. 87 The bird called Trompetero by the Spaniards..is the same with the Agami..the noise it occasionally makes..has earned it the title of trumpeter.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 317/2 Trumpeter.., the vulgar name for Psophia crepitans.
1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 326 The Trumpeters, or Psophiidæ, are..found only in the Great Amazon Valley.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Cracticidae > genus Strepera (currawong)
magpie1792
rainbird1817
trumpeter1827
currawong1926
1827 H. Hellyer in J. Bischoff Van Diemen's Land (1832) 177 We..occasionally heard the trumpeter, or black magpie.
d. = trumpeter swan n. at Compounds.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Cyginae (swans) > [noun] > member of genus Cygnus (miscellaneous) > cygnus cygnus (whooper)
elk1552
whooper1553
whistling swan1785
whooping swan1802
trumpeter swan1842
trumpeter1891
1891 Cent. Dict. Trumpeter... 5. The trumpeter-swan.
1899 Daily News 4 May 8/2 The cry of the Trumpeter..is..far-reaching and sonorous, and like the note of a horn.
e. (See quot. 1897.)
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > genus Branta > branta canadensis (Canada goose)
Canada goose1676
cravat goose1793
bustard1831
honker1836
Canada1871
trumpeter1897
1897 Month Apr. 417 The Canada goose, sometimes called, from its note, the ‘trumpeter’.
f. An Australian honey-eating bird, Philemon corniculatus.
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1844 in R. V. Billis & A. S. Kenyon Pastures New (1930) 249 We have a rather curious bird called the leatherhead or trumpeter, from the trumpet-like notes that it is constantly uttering.
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a. = trumpet-fish n. at trumpet n. Compounds 3. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Gasterosteiformes (sticklebacks) > [noun] > family Fistulariidae > member of (tobacco pipe-fish)
tobacco-pipe fisha1672
trumpeter1756
trumpet-fish1871
pipemouth1886
flute-mouth1887
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Gasterosteiformes (sticklebacks) > [noun] > family Centriscidae > member of Centriscus (snipe-fish) > centriscus scolopax (sea-snipe)
snipe-fish1668
trumpet-fish1668
bellows-fish1684
trumpeter1756
sea-snipe1836
woodcock-fish-
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 441 The Trumpeter, or Trumpet-Fish..is frequent in the harbours of Jamaica.
b. Any species of the genus Latris, comprising large food-fishes of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand: so called from the sound they utter when taken out of water.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Latridae (trumpeter)
yellowtaila1622
trumpeter1834
1834 Van Diemen's Land Ann. 30 The most admired fish of the Island may be considered the Trumpeter.
1883 E. P. Ramsay Food Fishes New S. Wales 13 Among the best are the trumpeters (Latris), of which there are several species... The Hobart trumpeter (L. hecateia)..in a smoked and dried state forms an article of export from Tasmania to the other colonies.
1883 Royal Comm. Fisheries Tasmania 35 The bastard trumpeter (Latris Forsteri)..Scarcely inferior to the real trumpeter.
Compounds
attributive, esp. in names of certain birds and fishes (cf. 5, 6):
trumpeter hornbill n. an African bird of the genus Bycanistes.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > family Bucerotidae (hornbill) > miscellaneous types of
homrai1832
ground-hornbill1883
trumpeter hornbill1899
1899 F. V. Kirby Sport E. Central Afr. viii. 95 In the vicinity of this Kraal the great trumpeter hornbill abounds, his hideous cries resounding through the dense forest.
1899 F. V. Kirby Sport E. Central Afr. xiii. 142 I..missed two shots..at a couple of lesser trumpeter hornbills (Bycanistes buccinator).
trumpeter hornet n.
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1670 J. Dryden Tyrannick Love iv. i. 31 A Trumpeter-Hornet to battel sounds loud.
trumpeter perch n. a small Australian food-fish, Therapon cuvieri.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Theraponidae (tiger-fish)
trumpeter perch1883
tiger-fish1893
theraponid1895
black perch1898
1883 E. P. Ramsay Food Fishes New S. Wales 13 The trumpeter perch (Therapon cuvieri), was formerly very numerous in Port Jackson... It is a small, delicious fish, and prettily striped.
trumpeter swan n. a large North American species of swan, Cygnus ( Olor) buccinator.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Cyginae (swans) > [noun] > member of genus Cygnus (miscellaneous) > cygnus cygnus (whooper)
elk1552
whooper1553
whistling swan1785
whooping swan1802
trumpeter swan1842
trumpeter1891
1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 375/1 The trumpeter swan, Cygnus Buccinator.
1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting xxii. 227 The cygnus buccinator, or trumpeter swan, the largest of its kind, and most common to the valley of the Mississippi.
trumpeter whiting n. an Australian fish, Sillago bassensis.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > member of family Sillaginidae
ladyfish1712
whiting1792
summer whiting1880
trumpeter whiting1882
1882 J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish & Fisheries New S. Wales 65 The trumpeter whiting (Sillago bassensis)..the most common species in Brisbane.
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