beme

From Middle English beme, from Old English bēme, bȳme, bīeme (“trumpet", also "tablet, billet”), from Proto-Germanic *baumijǭ (“wooden instrument”), from *baumaz (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhū (“to grow”). More at beam.

beme (plural bemes)

1. (obsolete) Trumpet.

From Middle English bemen, from Old English bȳmian (“to blow a trumpet, trumpet forth”), from bȳme (“trumpet”).

beme (third-person singular simple present bemes, present participle beming, simple past and past participle bemed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To sound a trumpet.

• beming

• Beem