TRUMPETING
Noun
trumpeting (plural trumpetings)
action of the verb to trumpet
(mining) A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft.
Verb
trumpeting
present participle of trumpet
Source: Wiktionary
Trump"et*ing, n. (Mining)
Definition: A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft. Raymond.
TRUMPET
Trump"et, n. Etym: [F. trompette, dim. of trompe. See Trump a
trumpet.]
1. (Mus.)
Definition: A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and
military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists
of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient
shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is
limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets
capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone
within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing
quality of tone.
The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms. Dryden.
2. (Mil.)
Definition: A trumpeter. Clarendon.
3. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of
propagating it. Shak.
That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those
times . . . to be the trumpet of his praises. Dryden.
4. (Mach)
Definition: A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor,
as for yarn in a knitting machine. Ear trumpet. See under Ear.
– Sea trumpet (Bot.), a great seaweed (Ecklonia buccinalis) of the
Southern Ocean. It has a long, hollow stem, enlarging upwards, which
may be made into a kind of trumpet, and is used for many purposes.
– Speaking trumpet, an instrument for conveying articulate sounds
with increased force.
– Trumpet animalcule (Zoƶl.), any infusorian belonging to Stentor
and allied genera, in which the body is trumpet-shaped. See Stentor.
– Trumpet ash (Bot.), the trumpet creeper. [Eng.] -- Trumpet conch
(Zoƶl.), a trumpet shell, or triton.
– Trumpet creeper (Bot.), an American climbing plant (Tecoma
radicans) bearing clusters of large red trumpet-shaped flowers; --
called also trumpet flower, and in England trumpet ash.
– Trumpet fish. (Zoƶl.) (a) The bellows fish. (b) The fistularia.
– Trumpet flower. (Bot.) (a) The trumpet creeper; also, its
blossom. (b) The trumpet honeysuckle. (c) A West Indian name for
several plants with trumpet-shaped flowers.
– Trumpet fly (Zoƶl.), a botfly.
– Trumpet honeysuckle (Bot.), a twining plant (Lonicera
sempervirens) with red and yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; -- called
also trumpet flower.
– Trumpet leaf (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus
Sarracenia.
– Trumpet major (Mil.), the chief trumpeter of a band or regiment.
– Trumpet marine (Mus.), a monochord, having a thick string,
sounded with a bow, and stopped with the thumb so as to produce the
harmonic tones; -- said to be the oldest bowed instrument known, and
in form the archetype of all others. It probably owes its name to
"its external resemblance to the large speaking trumpet used on board
Italian vessels, which is of the same length and tapering shape."
Grove.
– Trumpet shell (Zoƶl.), any species of large marine univalve
shells belonging to Triton and allied genera. See Triton, 2.
– Trumpet tree. (Bot.) See Trumpetwood.
Trump"et, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trumpeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trumpeting.]
Etym: [Cf. F. trompeter.]
Definition: To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to
proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.
They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they
could devise against the Irish. Bacon.
Trump"et, v. i.
Definition: To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a
trumplike cry.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition