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noun
a straight or coiled copper or brass horn with no valves or slide, originally used to announce mail coaches.
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Origin of post horn First recorded in 1665–75
Words nearby post horn postheat ,
post hoc ,
post hoc, ergo propter hoc ,
posthole ,
posthole digger ,
post horn ,
post horse ,
post house ,
posthumous ,
posthumously ,
posthypnotic
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How to use post horn in a sentence Who among Scalise's constituents could possibly care if he supported naming a post office for a black judge who died in 1988?
Her post-crown fame, though, only further begs the question: Why has there not been another Jewish Miss America since 1945?
Women are more likely to recover sooner from birth and less likely to experience post-partum depression.
So I asked the driver to honk the horn, which he does, and Rod looks over.
Another set of hackers that goes by the name the Lizard Squad told the Washington Post that they helped with the Sony hack.
I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
Before the outlaw can comply with this small request the horn sounds again.
If Mac had been alone he would have made the post by sundown, for the Mounted Police rode picked horses, the best money could buy.
The Café tender was asleep in his chair; the porter had gone off; the sentinel alone kept awake on his post.
Harry had no further adventures in reaching Fulton, and at once reported to Captain Duffield, who was in command of the post.
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British Dictionary definitions for post horn
noun
a simple valveless natural horn consisting of a long tube of brass or copper, either straight or coiled; formerly often used to announce the arrival of a mailcoach
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