(n) :
a mediaeval wind instrument with a double reed
"1985: There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful shawm, and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked.  Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked"
(n) :
a mediaeval wind instrument with a double reed
"1985: There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful shawm, and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked.  Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked"