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deˈhorn, v.
[de- II. 2.]
1. trans. To deprive (an animal) of horns. Also absol. and fig. Hence deˈhorner, one who, or an instrument which, dehorns animals.
1888Voice (N.Y.) 12 Jan. 2 The champion of dehorning cattle. Ibid. 23 Feb. 7 That enthusiastic champion of dehorning, ‘Farmer Haaf,’ will soon issue a book: ‘Every Man His own Dehorner’. 1888Missouri Republ. 15 Feb. (Farmer), Dehorning is performed when the calf is young, and the tips of the horns movable. 1889Farmer Americanisms 197/1 The preferred age at which to dehorn is in the second year of the animal's life. 1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 394/3 Cattle Dehorners... Newton's lately improved dehorning knife, revolving and sliding shear, each one making a draw cut. 1897Sears, Roebuck Catal. (facing p. 33), The Adsit dehorning shears..makes a drawing cut completely encircling the horn, which it removes almost instantly. 1904Wilcox & Smith Farmer's Cycl. Agric. 339/1 The practice of dehorning cattle is generally recommended by the experiment station. 1907Sears, Roebuck Catal., This style Dehorner in the large size will clip any size horn from cattle of any age. 1914Boston Even. Transcript 6 June 2/1 Four years ago they dehorned the speaker. 1920F. B. Hadley Princ. Vet. Sci. xiii. 260 When cattle are allowed to run together they should be dehorned. 1935J. Steinbeck To a God Unknown 91 To borrow a dehorner for that long-horned bull. 1959Times 27 Oct. 6/4 The high proportion of dehorned cows in the main cattle section. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 26 Jan. 112/3 (Advt.), 6-volt calf dehorner. 1971Guardian 20 Feb. 18/4 A cattle de-horning device.
2. Forestry. (See quots.)
1905Terms Forestry & Logging 35 Dehorn, to saw off the ends of logs bearing the owner's mark and put on a new mark (Kentucky). 1957Brit. Commonw. Forest Terminol. ii. 59 Dehorn, to re-mark logs for change of ownership.
3. Horticulture. (See quot. 1954.)
1934in Webster. 1954A. G. L. Hellyer Encycl. Garden Work & Terms 195/1 If..fairly large branches have to be removed..this should be done either right back to the main trunk, or to a suitably placed side branch. This latter process is known as dehorning. |