To sound a trumpet.
“But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Let us be tigers in our fierce deportment.”
Shakespeare: Henry V., iii. 1.
To blow. To inform against a companion; to “peach.” The reference is to the announcing of knights by blast of trumpet.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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