English Explanatory Dictionary

sackbut

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.

Word forms

sackbut sackbuts sacbut sackbutt sagbut shagbolt shakbusshe

Etymology

From French sacqueboute, from Middle French sacquer (“to pull”) + bouter (“to push”).

Related words

Sackbut in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Derived words

electronic sackbut sackbuttist
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