hunting horn


nounMusic.
  1. the earliest form of the modern horn, consisting of a conical tube coiled in a circle for carrying over the shoulder, and having a flaring bell and a trumpetlike mouthpiece.

Origin of hunting horn

1
First recorded in 1685–95

Words Nearby hunting horn

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How to use hunting horn in a sentence

  • Over his green doublet he wore a sad-coloured nightgown, out of the pocket of which peeped his hunting-horn.

    The Fortunes of Nigel | Sir Walter Scott
  • The former has a hunting horn suspended from his shoulder by a chain, and in his hand a small wooden crucifix.

    The Saxons | Edwin Davies Schoonmaker
  • The old-fashioned hunting horn, from which the modern orchestral horn is descended, was very simple indeed.

    Bizarre | Lawton Mackall
  • Here I heard the melodious notes of Teague's hunting horn, and following that, the full chorus of the hounds.

  • I put up at the “Hunting-horn,” a fine hotel, but ridiculously expensive.

British Dictionary definitions for hunting horn

hunting horn

noun
  1. a long straight metal tube with a flared end and a cylindrical bore, used in giving signals in hunting: See horn (def. 9)

  2. an obsolete brass instrument from which the modern French horn was developed

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