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Horner

name, noun, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    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
  3. 3
    The River Horner or Horner Water, a minor river in Somerset which passes through the hamlet. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who works or deals in (animal) horn or horns.

    "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"

  2. 2
    Someone who is from the Horn of Africa. informal
  3. 3
    Someone who blows a horn (for communication or musical purposes); a hornblower. obsolete
  4. 4
    Someone who cuckolds. obsolete

    "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."

  5. 5
    The British sand lance or sand eel, Hyperoplus lanceolatus.
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  1. 6
    Someone from the Horn of Africa.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English horner, hornere, equivalent to horn + -er.

Etymology 2

From Middle English hornere.

Etymology 3

From Horn + -er.

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