Wiktionary
n. 1 A horn of a buck. 2 The royal fern, ''Osmunda regalis''.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 63
Land area (2000): 0.609426 sq. miles (1.578406 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.609426 sq. miles (1.578406 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09792
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 41.015605 N, 76.498202 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Buckhorn
Housing Units (2000): 51
Land area (2000): 0.497549 sq. miles (1.288647 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.497549 sq. miles (1.288647 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10612
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 37.345879 N, 83.471060 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 41721
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Headwords:
Buckhorn
Wikipedia
Buckhorn may refer to:
In Canada:
- Buckhorn, Ontario
In the United Kingdom:
- Buckhorn, Devon, a United Kingdom location
In the United States:
- Buckhorn, Amador County, California
- Buckhorn, Ventura County, California
- Buckhorn, Illinois
- Buckhorn Corners, Illinois
- Buckhorn Township, Brown County, Illinois
- Buckhorn, Kentucky
- Buckhorn, Missouri
- Buckhorn, North Carolina
- Buckhorn Township, Harnett County, North Carolina
- Buckhorn Township, Wake County, North Carolina
- Buckhorn, Pennsylvania
In other uses:
- Buckhorn Lake (disambiguation), several lakes in the United States and Canada
- Buckhorn High School (disambiguation), several high schools in the United States
- Buckhorn sights, a type of iron sight on a firearm
- Buckhorn, a common name of Plantago lanceolata
Usage examples of "buckhorn".
Buckhorn, in the bobsleigh, all wrapped up in old buffalo-robes and blankets and tarpaulins.
He had a stick with an old-fashioned top of buckhorn worn smooth and bright by the palm of his hand, which had not lost its character in fat, and which had a history of former work in its enlarged knuckles, though it was now as soft as March's, and must once have been small even for a man of Mr.
She took the two little buckhorns and went to kneel before the central carved figure in the array of idols, a fearsome image with a headdress of lion's mane that housed the spirit of her dead grandfather.
Though he had no apparent limp, he affected a walkingstick as odd as the rest of his get-up: a three-foot post of white ash, somewhat stouter than a pick-shaft, it had what appeared to be folding lenses and other gadgetry attached here and there along its length, which was adorned with rude carvings (both intaglio and low-relief) of winged lingams, shelah-na-gigs, buckhorns, and domestic bunch-grapes.
It was called the Buckhorn, because of the owner's penchant for using deer horns for coat and hat racks.