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Webster 1913 Edition
Trumpeter
Trump′et-er
,Noun.
1.
One who sounds a trumpet.
2.
One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces.
These men are good
trumpeters
. Bacon.
3.
(Zool.)
(a)
Any one of several species of long-legged South American birds of the genus
Psophia
, especially Psophia crepitans
, which is abundant, and often domesticated and kept with other poultry by the natives. They are allied to the cranes. So called from their loud cry. Called also agami
, and yakamik
. (b)
A variety of the domestic pigeon.
(c)
An American swan (
Olor buccinator
) which has a very loud note. 4.
(Zool.)
A large edible fish (
Latris hecateia
) of the family Cirrhitidae
, native of Tasmania and New Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish. Webster 1828 Edition
Trumpeter
TRUMP'ETER
,Noun.
1.
One who proclaims, publishes or denounces. These men are good trumpeters.
2.
A bird, a variety of the domestic pigeon. Also, a bird of South America, the agami, of the genus Psophia, about the size of the domestic fowl; so called from its uttering a hollow noise, like that of a trumpet.