"coach horn" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1888, Athol Maudslay, Highways and Horses, pages 453–454:",
          "text": "An old guard, who writes upon the subject of coach-horns, calls attention to the fact of the difference existing between post and coach-horns by saying: \"The coach-horn is now the only recognised horn used on a four-in-hand coach' but the post-horn, fifty or sixty years ago, was the recognised signal-hron used by all the guards on the fast mail coaches, hence the name post-horn.\"",
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          "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.",
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          "ref": "2003, Donna-Belle Garvin, James L. Garvin, On the Road North of Boston, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The coach horn, sometimes referred to as a \"yard-of-tin,\" could reach almost five feet in length.",
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          "ref": "2004, Søren Kierkegaard, (Thomas C. Oden, ed), The Humor of Kierkegaard: An Anthology, →ISBN, page 51:",
          "text": "A coach horn has infinite possibilities, and the person who puts it to his mouth and puts his wisdom into it can never be guilty of a repetition, and he who instead of giving an answer gives his friend a coach horn to use as he pleases says nothing but explains everything.",
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        "A long, straight, valveless instrument, traditionally made of copper, originally used as a signal horn on fast coaches."
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