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For example, inheritance taking ceremonies might involve the those who have been bequeathed with inheritance by someone who has passed away making an oath to do something significant and then hallowing that oath by drinking a hornful of beer (could be 1 to 1.5 drinks) or mead (could be 3 – 4 drinks).

The Volokh Conspiracy » District Attorney Suggests That It May Be a Crime for Teachers to Follow the New State Law Mandating Certain Forms of Sex Education 2010

For example, inheritance taking ceremonies might involve the those who have been bequeathed with inheritance by someone who has passed away making an oath to do something significant and then hallowing that oath by drinking a hornful of beer (could be 1 to 1.5 drinks) or mead (could be 3–4 drinks).

The Volokh Conspiracy » District Attorney Suggests That It May Be a Crime for Teachers to Follow the New State Law Mandating Certain Forms of Sex Education 2010

Then I drank half of the hornful and sent the rest across the fire to the farmer.

Viking Tales 1902

He took from a hook a leathern bottle and poured out a hornful of hot

A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903

And there was a great drouth on Diarmuid after the sea-journey, and he had a mind to drink a hornful of the water.

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

The generation that laid the first powder-hornful of the train is dead and buried, long before the explosion which sends constituted order and institutions sky-high.

Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Alexander Maclaren 1868

Reuben knew what he was expecting, and handed him a hornful of rum and water.

A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia 1867

"Then I drank half of the hornful and sent the rest across the fire to the farmer.

Viking Tales Jennie Hall 1898