sackbut

English

Sackbutts

Alternative forms

sacbut, sackbutt, sagbut, shagbolt, shakbusshe

Etymology

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

Noun

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

sackbuttist

Translations

brass instrument

Catalan: sacabutx (ca) m
Dutch: baroktrombone m, f
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.

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