Crossword clues for dehorn
dehorn
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dehorn \De*horn"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dehorned; p. pr. & vb.
n. Dehorning.]
To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of
(cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See
Dishorn. ``Dehorning cattle.''
--Farm Journal (1886).
[1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To remove the horns from.
WordNet
v. prevent the growth of horns of certain animals
take the horns off (an animal)
Usage examples of "dehorn".
The ceiling was so low that its beams were scarred by tracks of ancipital horn points - possibly a deliberate device to emphasize the fact that the Phagorian Guard were never dehorned.
I was waiting for a bullock to be dehorned, not for a hapless victim to lay his head upon the block.
They inspected it all and felt cautiously of the dehorner, its sharp cupped blood-encrusted ends, and they edged up to the smudge pot and held out their gloved hands to its gassy heat.
Then they brought the cow in, and after she was tested and vaccinated Guthrie wrapped his arms around her head and pulled her head violently to one side, her neck stretching tight, her eyes wild and frantic, while Raymond fit the sharp ends of the dehorner over the malformed horn.
He clamped down with the dehorner, twisting it, applying pressure on the grips, and finally cut through.
An' he got blacker 'n thunder an' roared round like a dehorned bull.
Dehorning and castrating cattle was a messy, miserable job, and a tedious one.
Dehorning and castrating cattle was a messy, miserable job, and a tedious one.
They don't think about the castrating, dehorning, vaccinating, doctoring, and feeding--not to mention all the grief they give ya in between.
They worked two days in the holdingpens branding and earmarking and castrating and dehorning and inoculating.
There were ferocious skirmishers from Kace, who marched, slept, and fought with their dehorned phagors.
There were the phagors, dehorned, who served as something between a slave proper and a beast of burden.
The other end of the rope was held by one of three dehorned phagors who stood motionless against the wall opposite the one against which Shokerandit crouched.
One had only three prongs, having been partly dehorned by a British gun.
One of the men's stag-ponies was poorly dehorned and the horn-bud trickling blood at the base.