Definitions for sackbuts

sackbuts sack·but

Spelling: [sak-buht]
IPA: /ˈsækˌbʌt/

Sackbuts is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 225 anagrams from letters in sackbuts (abcksstu).

Definitions for sackbuts

noun

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

Origin of sackbuts

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 sackbuts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for sackbuts
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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