drinking-horn

See also: drinking horn

English

Noun

drinking-horn (plural drinking-horns)

1. A drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal.
   • 1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, translated by Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 91:

     He put down his sword and helmet and took the drinking-horn that was served to him, and finished it.

Translations

a drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal

• Dutch: drinkhoorn m
• Esperanto: trink-korno
• German: Trinkhorn (de)
• Irish: corn m, corn óil m, buabhall m
• Old English: drenchorn m
• Scottish Gaelic: còrn m