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sackbut |
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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