sackbut

English

Sackbutts

Alternative forms

• sacbut, sackbutt, sagbut, shagbolt, shakbusshe

Etymology

From French sacqueboute, from Middle French sacquer (“to pull”) + bouter (“to push”).

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.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎^[1], London: Jonathan Cape, page 35:

     Every instrument took part in the stately Pavane: the lutes and the dulcimers, and the theorbos, and the sackbuts, and the hautboys; the flutes sweetly warbling as birds in the upper air, and the silver trumpets, and the horns that breathed deep melodies trembling with mystery and tenderness that shakes the heart; and the drum that beateth to battle, and the wild throb of the harp, and the cymbals clashing as the clash of armies.

Derived terms

• electronic sackbut
• sackbuttist

Translations

brass instrument

• Catalan: sacabutx (ca) m
• Dutch: baroktrombone m or f
• Esperanto: renesanctrombono, baroktrombono, sakbuto
• French: sacqueboute (fr) f, sacquebute (fr) f, saquebute (fr) f
• German: Posaune (de), Barockposaune f, Renaissanceposaune f, Sackbut n
• Italian: sackbut m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sackbut, barokktrombone

  Nynorsk: sackbut, barokktrombone

• Occitan: sacabota f
• Portuguese: sacabuxa (pt) m
• Spanish: sacabuche m
• Swedish: barocktrombon

See also

• sackbut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sackbut in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• subtack