sackbut, sagbut, sagbutt

[Fr. saque bute, from Sp. sacabucke a tube or pipe, which serves asapump.. a sackbut; Port.sacabura, saquebuxo. Ultimate origin unknown.] Music : 1. One of the Babylonion musical instruments mentioned by Daniel (iii. 5, 7, 10, 15). It is the translation in the English version of the Bible of the word sabbeka . Some authors identify it with the sambuke of the Greeks and Romans, a kind of harp. [SAMBUKA.] "Psalt'ry and sackbut, dulcimer and flute." Cowper: Progre of Error, 133. 2. The old English sackbut or sagbut was a ba trumpet, with a slide like the trombone. "A dead-march within of drum and sagbutts ."- Beaum . & Flet.: Mad Lover , iii. 1. săck-cloth, *sackcloath, *sacke-cloth, s . [Eng. sack (1), s., and cloth .] The coarse cloth or stuff of which sacks are made; coarse hempen or flax cloth; a coarse cloth or garment worn in mourning, distre , or mortification. ( Jonahiii . 8.) săck-clothed, a. [Eng. sackcloth ; -ed.] Clad in sackcloth, mourning, mortified.