Meaning of coach horn | Babel Free

Definitions

A long, straight, valveless instrument, traditionally made of copper, originally used as a signal horn on fast coaches.

historical

Examples

“An old guard, who writes upon the subject of coach-horns, calls attention to the fact of the difference existing between post and coach-horns by saying: "The coach-horn is now the only recognised horn used on a four-in-hand coach' but the post-horn, fifty or sixty years ago, was the recognised signal-hron used by all the guards on the fast mail coaches, hence the name post-horn."”

“Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.”

“The coach horn, sometimes referred to as a "yard-of-tin," could reach almost five feet in length.”

“A coach horn has infinite possibilities, and the person who puts it to his mouth and puts his wisdom into it can never be guilty of a repetition, and he who instead of giving an answer gives his friend a coach horn to use as he pleases says nothing but explains everything.”

CEFR level