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drinking horn

drinking horn noun: a drinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn.

drinking horn: a drinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
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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

drinking horn meaning in Persian

drinking horn in Persian

drinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn
شاخ šâx

Forms of drinking horn

pluraldrinking horns

Questions about drinking horn

What does drinking horn mean?
Drinking horn means a drinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn.
What is drinking horn in Persian?
Drinking horn in Persian is شاخ (šâx). See Drinking horn meaning in Persian.
What part of speech is drinking horn?
Drinking horn is a noun.
What is the plural of drinking horn?
The plural of drinking horn is drinking horns.

Words near drinking horn in the dictionary

  1. drinking game
  2. drinking games
  3. Drinking Gourd
  4. drinking hole
  5. drinking holes
  6. drinking horn
  7. drinking horns
  8. drinking in
  9. drinking man's degree
  10. drinking off
  11. drinking one's own Kool-Aid

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