slug-hornn.1
A trumpet.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [noun] > trumpet
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slug-horna1770
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a1770 T. Chatterton Poems (1777) 242 Some caught a slughorne, and an onsett wounde.
1855 R. Browning Childe Roland xxxiv Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set, And blew.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
slug-hornn.2
(See quots.)
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of > (parts of) horn
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a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) 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.
1878 Sir B. T. B. Gibbs in Rep. Paris Exhib. II. 346 A ‘slug’ horn..gives an indication of the original blood.
Derivatives
ˈslug-horned adj.
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1899 H. R. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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