trumpeting

English

Noun

trumpeting (plural trumpetings)

  1. action of the verb to trumpet
    • 1862, Edmund Hope Verney, The Shannon's brigade in India, page 86:
      […] the cries of the natives, the moanings and gurglings of camels, the trumpetings of elephants, the buglings of neighbouring regiments […]
  2. (mining) A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft.[1]

Verb

trumpeting

  1. present participle and gerund of trumpet

References
  1. Rossiter W[orthington] Raymond (1881) “Trumpeting”, in A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms. […], Easton, Pa.: [American] Institute [of Mining Engineers], […], →OCLC.
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