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snuff-horn

snuff-horn noun: a container for snuff made from an animal's horn.

snuff-horn: a container for snuff made from an animal's horn
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Noun

snuff-horn (plural snuff-horns)

  1. A container for snuff made from an animal's horn.
    • When the coffee was drunk, and the cup was put away with many thanks and blessings, she went demurely to the hearth, and pulled out a snuff-horn.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 302

Forms of snuff-horn

pluralsnuff-horns

Questions about snuff-horn

What does snuff-horn mean?
Snuff-horn means a container for snuff made from an animal's horn.
What part of speech is snuff-horn?
Snuff-horn is a noun.
What is the plural of snuff-horn?
The plural of snuff-horn is snuff-horns.

Words near snuff-horn in the dictionary

  1. snuff-and-butters
  2. snuff-box
  3. snuff-boxes
  4. snuff-dish
  5. snuff-dishes
  6. snuff-horn
  7. snuff-horns
  8. snuff-mull
  9. snuff-mulls
  10. snuffbait
  11. snuffbox

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