† sack-buttn.
Obsolete.punningly.a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) v. 61 I' th celler..He will make dainty musick among the sack-butts.a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) ii. sig. C2v Al... You must not look to have your Dinner serv'd in with Trumpets. Cor. No, no, Sackbuts shall serve us.
A butt of sack.
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1599 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. King Edward IV sig. M Will no man thrust the staue into a Sack-but.
1623 G. Markham Countrey Contentments, or Eng. Huswife (new ed.) ii. 149 The depth of euery Sack-Butt is the foure pricks next to the puncheon.
1657 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra ix. 6 But he is past grace that is past shame, and can blush no more then a sackbut.
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