Also 7 to(a)ter. [f. TOOT v.2]
1. One who toots, or plays on a wind-instrument; a trumpeter or piper.
1620. Thomas, Lat. Dict., Vocalis … a tooter, a piper.
1623. Fletcher & Rowley, Maid in Mill, III. i. Hark hark! these Toaters tell us the King’s coming.
1633. B. Jonson, Tale Tub, V. v. Come, Father Rosin, with your fiddle now, As two tall toters; flourish to the masque.
1907. Daily Chron., 29 Jan., 4/7. A tutor who tootled a flute Tried to teach two young tooters to toot.
2. A horn or other wind-instrument.
1860. O. W. Holmes, Prof. Breakf.-t., viii. A boy … loves to … blow squash ‘tooters.’
1896. D. S. Meldrum, Grey Mantle, 108. The guard’s blowing it [news] about like a blast on his tooter.
1897. Kipling, Captains Courageous, 169. ‘Gimme the tooter.’ Dan took the tin dinner-horn, but paused before he blew.
