sackbutn.

Etymology: < French saquebute, earlier saqueboute, -botte, etc.; not found as the name of a musical instrument earlier than the latter half of the 15th cent., but presumably identical with Old Northern French saqueboute, explained in the 14th cent. as a lance furnished with ‘an iron hook for pulling men off their horses’ (‘un grau de fer pour les garchons saquier jus de leurs quevaulz’). In the modern Norman dialect the word means a squirt. The first element is clearly Old Northern French saquier (= Spanish sacar, Portuguese sacar) to pull, draw (which accounts for all the senses of the compound); the etymology of the second element is obscure; some scholars connect it with bouter to push. The Spanish sacabuche (compare the 16th cent. English form shagbushe), sackbut, also tube used as a pump, and the Portuguese sacabucha, -buxa, with the same meanings, appear to be corrupt adoptions of the French word. The Portuguese word is identical in form with a word meaning a hook for drawing the wad from a gun, regularly < saca-r to draw + bucha, buxa, wad. Possibly the French word may, when adopted into Portuguese, have undergone assimilation to the native word and then passed in the altered form into Spanish; but evidence is wanting.