horncoot
horncoot noun: the horned owl.
Noun
horncoot (plural horncoots)
- The horned owl.
- Some said that some eagle or great horncoot, having carried it thither while it was yet a lambkin, it had got away and saved itself among the bushes.1532, Francis Rabelais, “LVII. How Pantagruel went ashore at the dwelling of Gaster, the first master of arts in the world”, in Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his...
- two Feet high, and the upper End cut like the Ridge of an Houfe declining on both Sides, that the Horncoot may perch thereon […] tie a Cord from one End of the faid Perches to the other, having drawn it through an Iron-ring […] and at the other End your Horncoot is to be faftened by the Legs, like...1744, Ellis, William, “Agriculture”, in The modern husbandman c.1 v.6, page 106
Forms of horncoot
| plural | horncoots |
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Origin of horncoot
horn + coot.
Questions about horncoot
- What does horncoot mean?
- Horncoot means the horned owl.
- What part of speech is horncoot?
- Horncoot is a noun.
- What is the plural of horncoot?
- The plural of horncoot is horncoots.
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