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The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging.

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  1. n. The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging.
  2. n. (military) signal to wake up
  3. n. a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise
  4. The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging. "Sound a reveille." Dryden. For at dawning to assail ye Here no bugles sound reveille. Sir W. Scott.
  5. The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to givenotice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for thesentinels to forbear challenging. "Sound a reveille." Dryden.For at dawning to assail ye Here no bugles sound reveille. Sir W.Scott.
  6. n:100 n. (military) signal to wake up n. a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise