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hunting horn

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hunting horn
n
1. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Hunting) a long straight metal tube with a flared end and a cylindrical bore, used in giving signals in hunting See horn [9]
2. (Music / Instruments) an obsolete brass instrument from which the modern French horn was developed


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At the auction, a number of silver lots were purchased on behalf of a member of a royal family in Asia specifically for their palace museum, including a miniature silver hunting horn applied with a hound, inscribed 'Anglesey Hunt' and hallmarked London 1937.
Caspian flees and blows Susan's old hunting horn, which transports the four Pevensie children from a wartime Tube station to an idyllic Narnian beach.
His grandstand funeral was due to take place today with friends, townsfolk and local police following a horsedrawn hearse to the parish church where a hunting horn was to be sounded as a tribute.
 
 
 
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