Sackbut (Fr. saguebute), a name used for two totally different instruments—the one a kind of trumpet, the predecessor of the Trombone (q.v.); the other, the sackbut of Scripture, a stringed instrument somewhat of the nature of a guitar.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 63
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