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were horning
  • past progressive of horn.

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The Bashkai fellows didn't wait for a second word but ran off, and Dan and Me and Billy Fish walked across to where the drums were drumming and the horns were horning.

From Short Stories Old and New by Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso)

The Bashkai fellows didn’t wait for a second word but ran off, and Dan and Me and Billy Fish walked across to where the drums were drumming and the horns were horning.

From The Man Who Would Be King by Kipling, Rudyard