Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having widespread horns.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having horns spreading widely.

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Examples

  • "South Africa goes, if yo 'say so," said Jordan; "I'm yours truly, blast my broad-horned heart if I ain't."

    The Wedge of Gold C. C. Goodwin

  • A broad-horned sambhur to be killed, worthy of your honor's strength! '

    The Lion of Petra Talbot Mundy 1909

  • His massive, broad-horned forehead struck the stooping man with terrific force.

    The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

  • Spaniards and the horse Indians of the lower plains were finally beaten back from the _rancherias_, there came on the great herds of the gaunt, broad-horned cattle, footsore and slow and weary with their march of more than a thousand miles.

    The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Emerson Hough 1890

  • And over this Red River there came now swarming uncounted thousands of broad-horned cattle, driven by many bodies of hardy, sunburned, beweaponed, hungry men.

    The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Emerson Hough 1890

  • As the steer passed out, Sam slid down and wrapped those parenthetical legs of his around that high-headed, broad-horned brute, and he rode him till the fleet-footed animal fell down on the buffalo grass, ran his hot red tongue out across the blue horizon, shook his tail convulsively, swelled up sadly and died.

    Remarks Bill Nye 1873

  • Laplander, harnessing his broad-horned reindeer to his sledge.

    David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864

  • To the first he joyfully responded: "I am glad, old boy, blast my broad-horned heart if I aint!

    The Wedge of Gold C. C. Goodwin

  • Sedgwick, and throwing both arms around him broke out with: "Why, Jim; bless my broad-horned heart, but I'm glad ter see yo '!

    The Wedge of Gold C. C. Goodwin

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