trumpeting
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[edit]Noun
[edit]trumpeting (plural trumpetings)
- action of the verb to trumpet
- 1862, Edmund Hope Verney, The Shannon's brigade in India, page 86:
- […] the cries of the natives, the moanings and gurglings of camels, the trumpetings of elephants, the buglings of neighbouring regiments […]
- (mining) A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft.[1]
Verb
[edit]trumpeting
- present participle and gerund of trumpet
References
[edit]- ^ Rossiter W[orthington] Raymond (1881) “Trumpeting”, in A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms. […], Easton, Pa.: [American] Institute [of Mining Engineers], […], →OCLC.