vbl. sb. [f. TRUMPET v. + -ING1.]
1. The action of the verb TRUMPET. a. Blowing of a trumpet or trumpets; utterance of a sound like that of a trumpet.
1535. Coverdale, 1 Esdr. v. 66. Then came the enemies … to knowe what that trompettynge and noyse of shawmes might be.
1848. B. Webb, Continental Ecclesiol., 277. There was a great deal too much trumpeting and kettle-drumming in the orchestra.
1850. R. G. Cumming, Hunter’s Life S. Afr. (1902), 90/1. Crash came a second charge of elephants … accompanied by a trumpeting which caused our ears to tingle.
1861. J. Lamont, Seahorses, v. 74. The sonorous bellowing and trumpeting of a vast number of walruses.
1881. Miss Yonge, Lads & Lasses Langley, iii. The door … had … a trick of squeaking and trumpeting.
b. The action of proclaiming as by sound of trumpet.
1878. Bayne, Purit. Rev., xi. 487. The Lords Spiritual … for all their trumpeting of the duty of passive obedience, reminded Charles of the limitations of his prerogative when he tried to show mercy to the Presbyterians.
1885. Pall Mall G., 7 May, 3/2. There was a great deal of party trumpeting on both sides.
2. Mining. A channel or passage-way made in a shaft by a partition of brickwork, boarding, etc., for ventilation or other purpose.
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, 985. There is a simple mode of conducting air from the pit bottom to the forehead of the mine, by cutting a ragglin, or trumpeting, as it is termed, in the side of the gallery.
So Trumpeting ppl. a. (in various senses: see the vb.).
1849. Cupples, Green Hand, xvi. Lifting his trunk … with a sharp trumpeting scream.
1852. Thackeray, Esmond, II. iii. The Princess Anne … was proclaimed by trumpeting heralds … from Westminster to Ludgate Hill.
1859. Tennyson, Elaine, 138. The tiny-trumpeting gnat can break our dream.
1880. G. Meredith, Tragic Com. (1881), 12. His publication of a trumpeting book fell appallingly flat.
