Definitions for sackbut

sackbut sack·but

Spelling: [sak-buht]
IPA: /ˈsækˌbʌt/

Sackbut is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 178 anagrams from letters in sackbut (abckstu).

Definitions for sackbut

noun

  1. a medieval form of the trombone.
  2. Bible. an ancient stringed musical instrument. Dan. 3.

Origin of sackbut

1495-1505; Middle French saquebute, earlier saqueboute, saquebot(t)e orig., a kind of hooked lance, apparently with saque (it) pulls (see saccade); identity of 2nd

Examples for sackbut

In one place he is merely called a Minstrel, but in the other he is specifically described as a sackbut.

But she recovered rapidly after her marriage, her eyes grew brighter, we saw less of sackbut's "delicious skeleton."

Among them are the Psaltery of various shapes, the Sambuca or sackbut, the single and double Chorus, &c.

He can play any musical instrument from a sackbut to a Jew's harp, and speak any language from Czech to Choctaw.

He and his fellows sound the sackbut, whose notes are more doleful than the notes of other music are.

Here the pdalle is the bass pommer, or hautbois, and the sackbut is indicated as second bass or basse-contre.

At last one day he remembered the walnut which sackbut had given him.

Word Value for sackbut
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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