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drinking-horn en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of drinking horn; a drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal.
   alt of drinking horn
   • He put down his sword and helmet and took the drinking-horn that was served to him, and finished it. 1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, translated by Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 91:
   • In the middle of the room, there stood upon the ground a huge copper vessel half full of sweet mead, and by the side of it, a drinking-horn of pure gold. 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 136:

Forms

Translations (8)

ang drenchorn (a drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal) · eo trink-korno (a drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal) · de Trinkhorn (a drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal) · gd còrn (a drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal) · nl drinkhoorn (a drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal) · ga buabhall (a drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal) · ga corn óil (a drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal) · ga corn (a drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal)