The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horning \Horn"ing\, n.
Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a
crescent.
--J. Gregory.
Letters of horning (Scots Law), the process or authority by
which a person, directed by the decree of a court of
justice to pay or perform anything, is ordered to comply
therewith.
--Mozley & W.
Wiktionary
n. The activity of blowing the horn of a train. vb. (present participle of horn English)
Wikipedia
Horning is an ancient village and parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 11 km and had a population of 1,033 in the 2001 census. Horning parish lies on the northern bank of the River Bure south of the River Thurne and is located in The Broads National Park. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of North Norfolk, although areas alongside the rivers and broads fall into the executive area of the Broads Authority.
Usage examples of "horning".
Pemulis is telling Penn that there's a critical distinction between horning in and letting asswipes like Jeffrey Joseph Penn run roughshod over the delimiting boundaries that are Eschaton's very life-blood.
And if we get up to Acle before dark, we can easily get to Horning next day, before breakfast if somebody wakes us up.
And now the Federals are up there horning in, and this consul general informs us that even the dead man wasn't a plain honest-to-God American –.