Hypertext Webster Gateway: "trumpeter"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Trumpeter \Trump"et*er\, n.
1. One who sounds a trumpet.

2. One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces.

These men are good trumpeters. --Bacon.

3. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any one of several species of long-legged South
American birds of the genus {Psophia}, especially {P.
crepitans}, which is abundant, and often domesticated
and kept with other poultry by the natives. They are
allied to the cranes. So called from their loud cry.
Called also {agami}, and {yakamik}.
(b) A variety of the domestic pigeon.
(c) An American swan ({Olor buccinator}) which has a very
loud note.

4. (Zo["o]l.) A large edible fish ({Latris hecateia}) of the
family {Cirrhitid[ae]}, native of Tasmania and New
Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty
pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

trumpeter
n 1: a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet [syn: {cornetist}]
2: (formal) a person who announces important news; "the
chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a
trumpet" [syn: {herald}]
3: large gregarious forest-dwelling cranelike bird of South
America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged
cry; easily domesticated
4: large pure white wild swan of western North America having a
sonorous cry [syn: {trumpeter swan}, {Cygnus buccinator}]


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