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hunting-horn
1. A horn or bugle on which signals are blown in hunting.
1694Ld. Molesworth Acc. Denmark 160 The Huntsmen..having their great Brass Hunting-horns about their Necks. 1846–83R. E. Egerton-Warburton Hunt. Songs lxxiii. (ed. 7) 206 Diana it proved, who her hunting horn blew. 1879W. H. Stone in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 748/1 The hunting horn finally adopted differs from the orchestral horn in consisting of an unbroken spiral of three turns.
2. On a side-saddle, the second pommel on the near side, against which the left knee presses; first introduced for use in hunting; the leaping-head. (See horn n. 22 b.) Also hunting-horn crutch, leaping-horn.
1854Art Taming Horses viii. 117 The third or hunting-horn pommel must be fitted to the rider. Ibid. ix. 143 With the hunting-horn crutch the seat of a woman is stronger than that of a man, for she presses her right leg down over the upright pommel, and the left leg up against the hunting-horn. Ibid. 144 Ladies' saddles ought invariably to be made with what is called the hunting-horn, or crutch, at the left side. |