[f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who plays on a bugle; spec. a soldier who conveys orders by signals sounded on a bugle.
1840. H. Smith, O. Cromwell, II. 19. The Bugler … was already handling his instrument.
1863. Kinglake, Crimea, II. 366. A mounted officer rode up to a bugler of the 19th Regiment, and ordered him to sound the ‘retire.’
