drinking horn

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English

A Dutch drinking horn from the 16th century.

Noun

drinking horn (plural drinking horns)

  1. (chiefly historical) A drinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn.
    • 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 149:
      It was longer than any drinking horn that Thor had ever seen, but he was not concerned. He was Thor, after all, and there was no drinking horn he could not drain.

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