TRUMP'ETER, noun One who sounds a trumpet. 1. One who proclaims, publishes or denounces. These men are good trumpeters. 2. A bird, a variety of the domestic pigeon. Also, a bird of South America, the agami, of the genus Psophia, about the size of the domestic fowl; so called from its uttering a hollow noise, like that of a trumpet.
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