
Noah Webster
Trumpeter
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.