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[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Sackbutt.jpg/220px-Sackbutt.jpg)
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French sacqueboute, from Middle French sacquer (“to push”) + bouter (“to pull”).
Noun
[edit]sackbut (plural sackbuts)
- (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
[edit]Translations
[edit]brass instrument
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See also
[edit]sackbut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Sackbut in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)