† sea-cornetn.
Obsolete.
1. A kind of shellfish.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Buccinidae > genus or member of genus Buccinum (whelks)
whelkc725
periwinkle1530
wrinkle1589
Buccinum1601
sea-cornet1601
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. xxxviii. 259 The sea cornet Buccinum.
1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 122 There are also seen in the Caribbies two sorts of those great Shells called Sea-Cornets, which are turned at the end like a Screw.
2. A cornet (musical instrument) used at sea.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > horn > [noun] > other horns
earth horn?a1400
oliphantc1400
ruetc1400
buck-hornc1550
stock-horn1597
bell-horna1640
sea-cornet1653
dudeen?1790
carnyx1810
shofar1833
wonder-horn1864
handhorn1871
post-horn1881
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures lviii Throughout this Fleet they played on so many barbarous and ill accorded instruments, as Bels, Cymbals, Drums, and Sea-cornets.
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