coach horn
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.08 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A long, straight, valveless instrument, traditionally made of copper, originally used as a signal horn on fast coaches.
Example Sentences
- "An old guard, who writes upon the subject of coach-horns, calls attention to the fact of the difference existing between post and coach-horns by saying: "The coach-horn is now the only recognised horn used on a four-in-hand coach' but the post-horn, fifty or sixty years ago, was the recognised signal-hron used by all the guards on the fast mail coaches, hence the name post-horn.""
- "Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair."
- "The coach horn, sometimes referred to as a "yard-of-tin," could reach almost five feet in length."
- "A coach horn has infinite possibilities, and the person who puts it to his mouth and puts his wisdom into it can never be guilty of a repetition, and he who instead of giving an answer gives his friend a coach horn to use as he pleases says nothing but explains everything."