sackbut

English

Sackbutts

Alternative forms

• sacbut, sackbutt, sagbut, shagbolt, shakbusshe

Etymology

Middle French sacquer (“to push”) + bouter (“to pull”)

Noun

sackbut (plural sackbuts)

1. (music) A brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, and an ancestor of the modern trombone. It was derived from the medieval slide trumpet.

Derived terms

• sackbuttist

Translations

brass instrument

• Catalan: sacabutx (ca) m
• French: sacqueboute (fr) f, sacquebute (fr) f, saquebute (fr) f
• German: Posaune (de)

• Italian: trombone (it)
• Spanish: sacabuche

See also

• sackbut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sackbut in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.