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drinking-horn

drinking-horn is the alternative form of drinking horn.

Meaning of drinking horn

Noun

drinking horn (plural drinking horns)

  1. (historical) A drinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn.
    • It was longer than any drinking horn that Thor had ever seen, but he was not concerned. He was Thor, after all, and there was no drinking horn he could not drain.2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 149

Forms of drinking-horn

pluraldrinking-horns

Questions about drinking-horn

What is drinking-horn the alternative form of?
Drinking-horn is the alternative form of drinking horn.

Words near drinking-horn in the dictionary

  1. drinking water
  2. drinking waters
  3. drinking with the flies
  4. drinking-cup
  5. drinking-cups
  6. drinking-horn
  7. drinking-horns
  8. drinking-straw
  9. drinking-straws
  10. drinking-up time
  11. drinking-up times

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drinking-horn (page history and authors); drinking horn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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