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单词 slug-horn
释义 I. slug-horn1
[Erroneous use of slughorn, the earlier form of slogan.]
A trumpet.
a1770Chatterton Battle of Hastings ii. 99 Some caught a slughorne, and an onsett wounde.1855Browning Childe Roland xxxiv, Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set, And blew.
II. slug-horn2
[Cf. slug n.2 5.]
(See quots.)
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia 308 Slug-horn, a short and ill-formed horn of an animal of the ox kind, turned downwards, and appearing to have been stunted in its growth.1878Sir B. T. B. Gibbs in Rep. Paris Exhib. II. 346 A ‘slug’ horn..gives an indication of the original blood.
Hence ˈslug-horned a.
1899Rider Haggard in Longman's Mag. June 136 Six of these..not polled, but ‘slug-horned’, that is, with horns about the size and shape of a large sausage.
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