oxhorn

English

Etymology

ox +‎ horn

Noun

oxhorn (countable and uncountable, plural oxhorns)

  1. The horn of an ox.
    • 2000, Howard L. Blackmore, Hunting Weapons: From the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, page 134:
      The horn is made by joining the toothed ends of two pieces of oxhorn together.
    • 2006, Raymond Monelle, The Musical Topic: Hunt, Military and Pastoral, page 88:
      […] a “south Hungarian, Croatian, and Rumanian signal”, played on small horns “mostly made of animal material”—in other words, oxhorns […]
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