Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRUMP'ET-ER, n.

1. One who sounds a trumpet. Dryden.
2. One who proclaims, publishes or denounces. These men are good trumpeters. Bacon.
3. A bird, a variety of the domestic pigeon. Also, a bird of South America, the agami, of the genus Psophia, about the size of the domestic fowl; so called from its uttering a hollow noise, like that of a trumpet. Cyc. Ed. Encyc.