3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sackbut \Sack"but\, n. [F. saquebute OF saqueboute a sackbut,
earlier, a sort of hook attached to the end of a lance used
by foot soldiers to unhorse cavalrymen; prop. meaning, pull
and push fr saquier, sachier to pull draw (perhaps
originally, to put into a bag or take out from a bag; see
{Sack} a bag) + bouter to push (see {Butt} to thrust). The
name was given to the musical instrument from its being
lengthened and shortened.] (Mus.)
A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived
that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone
required; -- said to be the same as the trombone. [Written
also {sagbut}.] --Moore (Encyc. of Music).
Note: The sackbut of the Scriptures is supposed to have been
a stringed instrument.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sackbut
n : a medieval musical instrument resembling a trombone
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Sackbut
(Chald. sabkha; Gr sambuke), a Syrian stringed instrument
resembling a harp (Dan. 3:5, 7, 10, 15); not the modern sackbut,
which is a wind instrument.
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