"fish-horn" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "fish + horn",
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          "ref": "1884, George Thompson, My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson",
          "text": "Our \"music\" consisted of a bass-drum, which was tortured by the clown; a fish-horn beautifully played upon by Sam Palmer; a dinner-bell whose din was extracted by Jack Adams.",
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          "ref": "1886, Edward A. Rand, The Knights of the White Shield",
          "text": "He pointed toward the column, whose advance Juggie was enthusiastically stimulating by loud and prolonged blasts on the fish-horn.",
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          "ref": "1897, Ralph Bonehill, The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview",
          "text": "The lad was pounced upon and raised up on his friends' shoulders, and away went the boat club boys around the town, Blumpo in advance of them blowing a big fish-horn.",
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        "A horn that produces a loud and penetrating sound, used by a fishmonger to announce that the catch is in."
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          "fishmonger",
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          "catch",
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        "(historical) A horn that produces a loud and penetrating sound, used by a fishmonger to announce that the catch is in."
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          "word": "fish horn"
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  "etymology_text": "fish + horn",
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          "ref": "1884, George Thompson, My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson",
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          "ref": "1897, Ralph Bonehill, The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview",
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        "(historical) A horn that produces a loud and penetrating sound, used by a fishmonger to announce that the catch is in."
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      "word": "fish horn"
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