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Webster 1828 Edition


Drinking-horn

DRINKING-HORN

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Noun.
A horn cup, such as our rude ancestors used.

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drinking-horn

drinking-horn

See also: drinking horn

English

Noun

drinking-horn (plural drinking-horns)

  1. A drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal.
    • 1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin 2001, p. 91:
      He put down his sword and helmet and took the drinking-horn that was served to him, and finished it.

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