Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HAUT'BOY, n. [ho'boy; Fr. haut, high, and bois, wood, or a shoot.]

1. A sort of strawberry. [The name belongs to the strawberry.]
2. A wind instrument, somewhat resembling a flute, but widening toward the bottom, and sounded through a reed. The treble is two feet long. The tenor goes a fifth lower, when blown open. It has only eight holes; but the base, which is five feet long, has eleven. Encyc.