Past tense of bugle; played a bugle or made a sound like a bugle.
From the verb 'bugle' (to play a bugle), which comes from Old French 'bugle' meaning a curved hunting horn, ultimately from Latin 'buculus' (ox or buffalo).
Bugles were originally made from buffalo horns—the name literally means 'ox/buffalo'—so when a bugle is bugled, you're hearing an echo of ancient hunting traditions.
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