Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who blows a horn; a trumpeter.
- noun In entomology, a southern United States tobacco-growers' name for the tobacco sphinx-moth, Phlegethontius Carolina, the parent of the horn-worm of tobacco.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, blows a horn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
blows ahorn .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In his spiel-cum-disarming-stand-up-routine afterwards he explained how, in days of yore, Ripon householders would pay a small amount to the hornblower as the city's gates were closed.
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Among the most famous pieces on view in the gallery are a figure of a hornblower, cast in brass for the king of Benin in the 16th century, and an ivory gong also made for the royal court in Benin at about the same time.
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Among the most famous pieces on view in the gallery are a figure of a hornblower, cast in brass for the king of Benin in the 16th century, and an ivory gong also made for the royal court in Benin at about the same time.
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Among the most famous pieces on view in the gallery are a figure of a hornblower, cast in brass for the king of Benin in the 16th century, and an ivory gong also made for the royal court in Benin at about the same time.
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the one thing i find incredible about atzmon is not what he says, but the fact that anyone gives any credibility whatsoever to what a hornblower has to say...it'd be like giving any credence to the views of jedward as to the solution to the euro crisis...
The Guardian World News Andy Newman 2011
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With clang tinkle boomhammer tallyho hornblower blue green yellow flashes Toft's cumbersome turns with hobbyhorse riders from gilded snakes dangled, bowels fandango leaping spurn soil foot and fall again.) _
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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