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sackbutt

sackbutt is the alternative spelling of sackbut.

Meaning of sackbut

Noun

sackbut (plural sackbuts)

  1. A brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, and an ancestor of the modern trombone. It was derived from the medieval slide trumpet.
    • Every instrument took part in the stately Pavane: the lutes and the dulcimers, and the theorbos, and the sackbuts, and the hautboys; the flutes sweetly warbling as birds in the upper air, and the silver trumpets, and the horns that breathed deep melodies trembling with mystery and tenderness that...1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 35

Forms of sackbutt

pluralsackbutts

Questions about sackbutt

What is sackbutt the alternative spelling of?
Sackbutt is the alternative spelling of sackbut.

Words near sackbutt in the dictionary

  1. sackbarrows
  2. sackbut
  3. sackbutist
  4. sackbutists
  5. sackbuts
  6. sackbutt
  7. sackbuttist
  8. sackbuttists
  9. sackbutts
  10. sackcloath
  11. sackcloaths

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