n. A small high-pitched trumpet.n. Hence, any sound resembling that of a clarion; any instrument which utters sounds like those of a clarion.n. An organ-stop having pipes with reeds, which give a bright, piercing tone, usually an octave above the key struck.n. In heraldry, a bearing common in very early English heraldry, and occasionally used on the continent, supposed to represent a musical wind-instrument.