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Definition of Drinking horn

Drinking horn
Drinking Drink"ing, n. 1. The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing. 2. The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors. 3. An entertainment with liquors; a carousal. Note: Drinking is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, a drinking song, drinking cup, drinking glass, drinking house, etc. Drinking horn, a drinking vessel made of a horn.

Meaning of Drinking horn from wikipedia

- A drinking horn is the horn of a bovid used as a drinking vessel. Drinking horns are known from classical Antiquity, especially the Balkans, and remained...
- 19th-century drinking horn. Originally from the Kuba Kingdom, the drinking horn is made out of wood, iron, and copper alloy. Drinking horns were usually...
- Avsalon's Drinking Horn, named for Bishop Absalon because of an incorrect tradition that he was its first owner, is a 72 cm long 14th-century drinking horn, with...
- images. It is uncertain whether the horns were intended as drinking horns, or as blowing horns, although drinking horns have more pronounced history as luxury...
- Still Life with Lobster, Drinking Horn and Gl****es is a 1653 painting by Dutch artist Willem Kalf. The painting is a still life, and has been referred...
- the valkyries Hrist ("shaker") and Mist ("cloud") would "bear him a [drinking] horn", then provides a list of 11 more valkyries who he says "bear ale to...
- Latin cornu (horn) and copia (abundance), also called the horn of plenty, was a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped container...
- religions of the ancient Near East. Its horns were used in votive offerings, as trophies and drinking horns. Two aurochs domestication events occurred...
- freeing his kingdom from the monster, Hrothgar gives Beowulf his golden drinking horn, which commemorates Hrothgar's victory over the mighty dragon Fafnir...
- that region. Similar in form to, and perhaps originating from, the drinking horn, it has been widespread over Eurasia since prehistoric times. Liddell...