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hornbook
[ hawrn-book ]
/ ˈhɔrnˌbʊk /
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British Dictionary definitions for hornbook
hornbook
/ (ˈhɔːnˌbʊk) /
noun
a page bearing a religious text or the alphabet, held in a frame with a thin window of flattened cattle horn over it
any elementary primer
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