trumpeting

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English

Noun

trumpeting (plural trumpetings)

  1. action of the verb to trumpet
    • 1862, Edmund Hope Verney, The Shannon's brigade in India, page 86:
      [] the cries of the natives, the moanings and gurglings of camels, the trumpetings of elephants, the buglings of neighbouring regiments []
  2. (mining) A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Raymond to this entry?)

Verb

trumpeting

  1. present participle of trumpet