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Bugle horn

Bugle horn \Bu"gle horn`\

  1. A bugle.

    One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  2. A drinking vessel made of horn. [Obs.]

    And drinketh of his bugle horn the wine.
    --Chaucer.

Usage examples of "bugle horn".

Then he arose, tottering, and bearing himself up by the palms of his hands against the wall, he reached his bugle horn at last.

Then, knowing that he must die, he reached forth his hand to his bugle horn, which lay by him on the bed.

Nevertheless, listen well, and if ye hear me sound upon my bugle horn, come quickly.

The first prize was to be twoscore and ten golden pounds, a silver bugle horn inlaid with gold, and a quiver with ten white arrows tipped with gold and feathered with the white swan's-wing therein.

The insignias of rank, denoting a Captain, were not epaulettes, but wings made from chains and decorated with a bugle horn.