Meaning & use
Bugling
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The loud, resonant call made by a bull elk during mating season, or the act of sounding a bugle.
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Hikers stopped to listen to the eerie bugling of elk echoing through the valley.
A lone trumpeter practiced his bugling in the empty stadium.
A note on using this word
Wildlife biologists use "bugling" specifically for the elk's distinctive rutting call, which resembles the sound of a brass bugle.
Words with a similar meaning
trumpeting
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Another way to use it
2. noun
The act of playing a bugle.
The soldier's bugling signaled it was time to fall in.
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