horners

Noun

horner (plural horners)

1. Someone who works or deals in (animal) horn or horns.
   • The skin of any Bulls Forehead, either for its toughness, or other cause, is the only part of the Hyde made use of by Horners, whereupon they shave their Hornes […]to fit them for Lamphorns1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […]...
2. (obsolete) Someone who blows a horn (for communication or musical purposes); a hornblower.
3. (obsolete) Someone who cuckolds.
   • Sir, from the party, / The lady you should truck with, the lord's wife / Your worship is to dub, or to make free / Of the company of the horners.1624, Philip Massinger, “The Parliament of Love”, in William Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger, published 1845, act 4, scene 3, page 164
4. The British sand lance or sand eel, Hyperoplus lanceolatus.
5. Someone from the Horn of Africa.

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