单词 | bugle call |
释义 | > as lemmasbugle call bugle call n. (a) a signal or summons sounded on a bugle (also figurative); (b) North American the rutting call of a large deer; esp. the loud screams of a male wapiti (North American elk). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Alces (elk or moose) > sound made by bugle call1803 bugling1948 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of wind instruments > sound of bugle bugle blasta1500 bugle call1803 tiralee1847 1803 W. Scott Let. 10 July (1932) I. 195 I can proceed no further being alarmed by the Bugle Call not indeed to summon to battle but to the less hazardous task of a Mess Dinner. 1889 H. W. Seton-Karr Ten Years' Wild Sports Foreign Lands vi. 137 We..heard that wonderful, weird, awe-inspiring bugle call of the bull. 1911 Mariner′s Mirror 1 224/1 What is the origin of the ‘first’ and ‘last post’ bugle calls used in H.M. ships? 1947 Life 17 Nov. 132/2 It [sc. the Daughters of the American Revolution] was founded in 1890, after a journalistic bugle call was sounded in the Washington Post. 1983 Boston Globe (Electronic ed.) 9 Oct. 1 Schilla and Walsh talk..about the difference between an elk's bugle call and its grunt. 2011 G. Bethlenfalvay In Search of Amer. i. 27 The plaintive chords of a distant bugle call wafting through mild waves of dusking evening air. 2016 Edmonton (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 9 June (Early ed.) b11 You might spot a moose or hear the bugle call of a bull elk. < as lemmas |
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