| 单词 | goat horn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoat horn goat horn n. the horn of a goat, often hollowed out and used as a container, vessel, musical instrument, etc.; (later also) the material of which such an item is composed. [Compare Middle Dutch gheetshorn (compare Dutch geitenhorn), early modern German geishorn, Old Icelandic geitarhorn, Old Swedish geta horn (Swedish gethorn).] ΚΠ OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Vitell.) vii. 254 Nim gate horn [?a1200 Harl. 6258B gate horn; L. cornu caprae] & lege to fyre, þæt he byrne. OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Vitell.) vii. 254 To slæpe, gate horn under heafod geled, weccan he on slæpe gecyrreþ. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xl. 1303 A goot horne brende is holsomliche do to þe noseþerles. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 52 Ane pipe maid of ane gait horne. 1683 J. Turner Pallas Armata ii. iii. 44 Pyrrhus King of Epirus; was known by his Crest of Goate Horns. ?1720 A. Peden Lords Trumpet 27 I will not give a Goat-horn for it all in comparison of that Noble Satisfaction I shall have in the Morning of the Resurrection. 1894 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 14 151 Juno Lanuvina, Hera's Italian counterpart, is normally draped in a goat's skin with long goat-horns. 1910 Metal Industry July 305/2 The handle [of the one-bladed jackknife] is made of goat horn. 2014 J. Montagu Horns & Trumpets of World x. 179/1 It is a single-curved goat horn with five fingerholes and a small suspension hole on the convex side. < as lemmas |
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