"drinking-horn" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: drinking-horns [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} drinking-horn (plural drinking-horns)
  1. Alternative form of drinking horn; a drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: drinking horn (extra: a drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal) Translations (a drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal): drinkhoorn [masculine] (Dutch), trink-korno (Esperanto), Trinkhorn (German), corn [masculine] (Irish), corn óil [masculine] (Irish), buabhall [masculine] (Irish), drenchorn [masculine] (Old English), còrn [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic)

Inflected forms

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