Meaning of oliphant | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. An elephant.
   archaic, historical
3. An ancient ivory hunting-horn.

Examples

“She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. […] His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnowes where he feeds His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.”

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