Found 2 items, similar to Reveille.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: reveille
reveille
n 1: (military) signal to wake up [syn:
wake-up signal]
2: a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a
bugle call at sunrise
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Reveille
Reveille
\Re*veil"le\, n. [F. r['e]veil, fr. r['e]veiller to
awake; pref. re- re- + pref. es- (L. ex) + veiller to awake,
watch, L. vigilare to watch. The English form was prob. taken
by mistake from the French imper. r['e]veillez,2d pers. pl.
See
Vigil.] (Mil.)
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.
[1913 Webster]
For at dawning to assail ye
Here no bugles sound reveille. --Sir W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster]