Also 3–6 trompe, 6 (8–9 arch.) tromp, 4–5 troumpe, 4–7 trumpe, (5 trommpe, trumppe); β. 6 Sc. trum, trumme, trumb(e. [ME. a. F. trompe (12–13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) = Prov. tromba, trompa, It. tromba; ulterior derivation uncertain.]
1. = TRUMPET sb. 1. arch. and poet.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 8166. Of trompes & of tabors þe sarazins made þere So gret noyse.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 15011 (Cott.). Wit harp and pipe, and horn and trump.
1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 4770. As Dauyd seyþ yn þe sautere,… Wurschepe God, yn troumpes, and sautre.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xiv. (Lucas), 78. Þat þe angel his trumpe sal blav, And ger þame ryse þat lyis law.
1382. Wyclif, 1 Cor. xv. 52. In the laste trumpe; forsoth the trumpe schal synge. Ibid., 1 Thess. iv. 15. In the voys of archaungel, and in the trumpe of God.
c. 1440. Alphabet of Tales, 306. He sett þis trompe to his mouth & began to blaw.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 214 b. The day of the sounde of the claryon & trumpe of god.
1622. Drayton, Poly-olb., xix. 141. With their crooked trumps his Tritons Neptune sent.
1748. Thomson, Cast. Indol., I. xxviii. Withouten tromp was proclamation made.
1805. Scott, Last Minstrel, VI. xxxi. When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead!
1835. Lytton, Rienzi, V. iii. Like a king in his pomp, To the blast of the tromp, And the roar of the mighty drum.
β. 15[?]. Aberdeen Regr. (Jam.). To play vpoune the trum nychtly, to convene the waich at ewin.
1549. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., IX. 281. Foure Duchemen quha with thair trumbis playit before Ladye Barbara. Ibid., 283. For ane trumme … to convene hors and pyonaris.
b. = JEWS’ HARP, JEWS’ TRUMP. Now Sc. and north. Ireland. Tongue of the trump: see TONGUE sb. 14 c.
1549. Compl. Scot., vi. 65. The thrid [shepherd] playit on ane trump.
1670. Narborough, Jrnl., in Acc. Sev. Late Voy., I. (1694), 63. I gave them a Hatchet and Knives, and Beads, and Toys, Trumps etc.
1774. [see JEWS’ HARP].
1830. Scott, Demonol., 314. She played on a Jews harp called in Scotland a trump.
c. Trump marine = trumpet marine: see TRUMPET sb. 2 b.
1667. Pepys, Diary, 24 Oct. We in to see … one Monsieur Prin play on the trump-marine, which he do beyond belief.
1863. Thornbury, True as Steel, II. 164. Some blew hideous discord from the square-mouthed trump marine (a sort of bassoon). [An error.]
d. transf. in reference to a sound like that of a trampet.
1809. W. Irving, Knickerb., IV. ii. (1861), 117. Wilhelmus Kieft … availed himself of that musical organ or trump which nature has implanted in the midst of a man’s face.
1895. J. G. Millais, Breath fr. Veldt (1899), 26. At sunset their [cranes’] hoarse trumps may be heard as they wing their flight to some solitary spot.
e. slang or vulgar. The act of breaking wind audibly.
1903. in Farmer & Henley, Slang.
† 2. transf. One who plays a trump, a trumpeter.
13[?]. Sir Beues (A.), 3793. Þe trompes gonne here bemes blowe.
1473–4. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 14. Gevin to James sadillare for a sadill to the Kingis trompis.
† 3. transf. A hollow tube or pipe; spec. (a) the convoluted windpipe of the crane; (b) the trunk of an elephant; the proboscis of an insect. Obs. rare.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., IX. 179. To ha made Trumpis of cley bi potters.
c. 1460. J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, 431. The Crane … of hyre trompe in þe brest loke þat ye beware [in carving].
1648. Hexham, II. Rotel ofte russel, the Trumpe or Snout of an Elephant.
1750. Phil. Trans., XLVI. 545. So that it [the Bee] does not suck, but laps or licks with its rough Fang or Tromp, like a Dog.
4. fig. One who or that which proclaims, celebrates, or summons loudly like a trumpet; esp. in trump of fame and the like (cf. quot. c. 1384 in TRUMP v.1 2). arch. and poet.
1531. Elyot, Gov., III. xix. Howe moche worthyar had he [Cato] bene to haue hadde Homere, the trumpe of his fame immortall, than Achilles.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Matt. iv. 33. The trumpe of the voyce of the gospell.
1575. R. B., Appius & Virg., Prol. Who doth desire the trump of fame, to sound vnto the Skies.
1630. Quarles, Funeral Elegies, xiii. When the latest breath of fame Shall want her Trumpe, to glorifie a name.
1741–2. Gray, Agrippina, 122. Say we sound The trump of liberty.
1827. Keble, Chr. Y., 1st Sun. Adv. i. Awake—again the Gospel-trump is blown.
5. Comb., as trump-like adj., trump-maker.
1609. Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 57/2. Confectoris instrumentorum lusorialium lie trumpmaker.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, II. 419. A breast of brasse, a voyce Infract and trumplike.
