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▪ 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. |