Meaning of horner | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone who works or deals in (animal) horn or horns.
2. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
3. Someone who is from the Horn of Africa.
   informal
4. Someone who blows a horn (for communication or musical purposes); a hornblower.
   obsolete
5. A hamlet in Luccombe parish, Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district and West Somerset district before that (OS grid ref SS8945).
   countable, uncountable
6. Someone who cuckolds.
   obsolete
7. The River Horner or Horner Water, a minor river in Somerset which passes through the hamlet.
   countable, uncountable
8. The British sand lance or sand eel, Hyperoplus lanceolatus.
9. Someone from the Horn of Africa.

Examples

“The skin of any Bulls Forehead, either for its toughness, or other cause, is the only part of the Hyde made use of by Horners, whereupon they shave their Hornes […]to fit them for Lamphorns”

“As also all patents for new inventions not put in practice within three years, likewise the several grants of incorporation to hatband makers, gutstring makers, spectacle makers, comb makers, tobacco-pipe makers, butchers, and horners.”

“Sir, from the party, / The lady you should truck with, the lord's wife / Your worship is to dub, or to make free / Of the company of the horners.”

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