Meanings
nounlevet (plural levets)
plural levets
- obsoleteA trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.
First he that led the cavalcate, Wore a sow-gelder's flagellet, On which he blew as strong a levet.
1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC
Origin
Compare French lever (“to raise”).
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