sackbut

SACKBUT

perhaps *buccina. Sound of the sackbut buccinae sonus; buccinum. The sackbut sounds buccinatur; buccinat.

sackbut: obs. (except in Dan. iii. 5, where it is a mistranslation of sambūca, σαμβύκη, a triangular stringed instrument of a sharp tone), the s. was a bass trumpet with a slide, like the modern trombone (the sagbut deep, Drayton): buccĭna, ae, f., and cornu, us or u, n., may perhaps be used.