• IPA: /ˈbjuːɡəl/

bugle (plural bugles)

1. A horn used by hunters.
2. (music) a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
3. A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover, Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.

   Synonyms: bugleweed, carpet bugle, ground pine

4. Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.

• (shaped like a bugle) cone, funnel

• French: clairon
• German: Bügelhorn
• Portuguese: clarim
• Russian: рог
• Spanish: clarín

• German: Günsel
• Italian: bugola
• Russian: дубро́вка

• Russian: ра́струб

bugle (bugles, present participle bugling; past and past participle bugled)

1. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle

• trumpet

bugle (plural bugles)

1. a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
   • 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 207.

     With the exception of a woman in a black silk dress with bugles who, incredible as it may seem, had ordered cocoa and sparkling limado simultaneously and was washing down a meal of Cambridge sausages and pastry with alternate draughts of both liquids, the place was empty.

bugle

1. (obsolete) jet-black
   • c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene v]:

     Bugle eyeballs.

bugle (plural bugles)

1. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.