Shawm

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various early double-reed wind instruments, forerunners of the modern oboe.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a mediaeval double reed wind instrument with conical wooden body
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A musical instrument of the oboe class, having a double reed inclosed in a globular mouthpiece.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a medieval oboe
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hautbois    oboe    hautboy   
    Variant
    shalm    shaum   
    Hyponym
    bombard    bombardon   
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