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plural bassoons
A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges. quotations examples
Higher and higher every day, / Till over the mast at noon— / The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.
1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
third-person singular simple present bassoons, present participle bassooning, simple past and past participle bassooned
To play the bassoon. examples
To make a bassoon-like sound. examples