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post-horn|ˈpəʊsthɔːn| [f. post n.2 + horn n.] A horn formerly used by a postman or the guard of a mail-coach, to announce arrival; later often used on pleasure coaches.
1675Hexham Dutch Dict., Post-horen, Post-horn. 1677Lond. Gaz. No. 1229/4 Thomas Moris a young man..with a gray Coat, and a leather pair of Breeches, and a Post-horn in his Girdle,..Rid away with a Chesnut Coloured Gelding. 1782Cowper Table Talk 33 The wretch..Who, for the sake of filling with one blast The post-horns of all Europe, lays her waste. 1840Hood Up the Rhine 285 In the mean-time, the post-horn kept blowing. 1881W. H. Stone in Grove Dict. Mus. III. 21 Posthorn, a small straight brass or copper instrument, varying in length from two to four feet, of a bore usually resembling the conical bugle more than the trumpet, played by means of a small and shallow-cupped mouthpiece. b. attrib. and Comb., as post-horn band; post-horn pond-snail, Planorbis corneus, also called ram's-horn, from the form of its shell.
1864Sala in Daily Tel. 16 July, A post-horn band..performing in some unlicensed place. 1901Westm. Gaz. 16 Dec. 3/1 A good purple dye may also be got from the posthorn pond snail. |