cowhorn

The specific practices of biodynamic viticulture can sound a little wacky — like burying a cowhorn packed with manure in the vineyard — although many of these practices have an intuitive logic.

Mr. Joly's Particularly Pure Terroir Jay McInerney 2010

The most emblematic and controversial practice of biodynamic s is the practice of burying a cowhorn stuffed with manure at the time of the autumnal equinox.

Biodynamics: Natural Wonder or Just a Horn of Manure? jaY MCINERNEY 2010

The next saturday, i'm back in the same stand, and a nice cowhorn spike walked within spittin distance. i painfully let him go in hopes of a bigger one. my wish was granted about 10 that mornin when i nice buck that looked to be about 17 or 18 in. inside appeared!!! my luck was changin!!!!

Bad Juju Among the Shed Heads 2008

Singing into his trumpet to produce eerie overtones, and even playing a brief bluesy snatch on a Swedish cowhorn, Hardenberger explored unsuspected sonorities that sheered out of and then merged back into the orchestra.

LSO/Harding/Hardenberger 2010

One of the soldiers raised a trumpet, a long cone of silvery metal rather than a cowhorn, and blew a piercing two-note call.

Lord of the Isles 1997

It was sitting in a bowl made of cowhorn, jumbled with a collection of bone buttons, string, and other bits of rubbish.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

Warning: Do not use the ‘cowhorn’ forcep to take out a baby molar.

Chapter 6 1983

Odd things that he found in the woods he would bring to his shanty: curled sticks, feathers, bones, skulls, fungus, shells, an old cowhorn -- things that interested him, he did not know why.

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

He describes his adventures to Gutrune until Gunther's boat is seen approaching, when Hagen seizes a cowhorn and calls the tribesmen to welcome their chief and his bride.

The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring George Bernard Shaw 1903

"For pulling the roots of the upper molars we use the cowhorn forceps," continued the dentist, monotonously.

McTeague Frank Norris 1886