"beme" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Middle English beme, from Old English bēme, bȳme, bīeme (“wooden trumpet; tablet, billet”), from Proto-West Germanic *baumijā (“wooden instrument or utensil”), from Proto-Germanic *baumaz (“tree, lumber, beam, wood”). Related to beam.",
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          "ref": "1789, Thomas Chatterton, William Barrett's History of Bristol, page 641:",
          "text": "Heart of lion! sound the beme!\nSound it into inner lands; […]",
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          "text": "One of the long, curved horns was known as a beme and shows up as the instrument of choice blown by angels announcing the Biblical Day of Judgment.",
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          "ref": "2014, Sir Thomas Malory, Maureen Okun, Joseph Black, Le Morte Darthur, page 302:",
          "text": "And when the host on both parties saw that sword drawn, then they blew bemes, trumpets, and horns, and shouted grimly, and so both hosts dressed them together.",
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          "text": "[…] be inserted directly into each other to make the long, straight beme or trompe.",
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