Trumpeter

Definition of 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.	(Zool.) Any one of several species of long-legged South American birds of the genus Psophia, especially Psophia 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.
	4.	(Zool.) A large edible fish (Latris hecateia) of the family Cirrhitidæ, native of Tasmania and New Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish.

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