shawms

Noun

shawm (plural shawms)

1. A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.
   • And all the field is thick with companies
     Of fair-clothed men that play on shawms and lutes
     And gather honey of the yellow fruits
     Between the branches waxen soft and wide1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “St. Dorothy”, in Poems and Ballads, London: J. C. Hotten, page 288

   Synonyms:

   zurna