horner means someone who works or deals in (animal) horn or horns. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.
Etymology
From Middle English horner, hornere, equivalent to horn + -er.
noun
- Someone who works or deals in (animal) horn or horns.“The skin of any Bulls Forehead, either for its toughness, or other cause, is the only part of the Hyde made use of by Horners, whereupon they shave their Hornes […]to fit them for Lamphorns”
- Someone who blows a horn (for communication or musical purposes); a hornblower.
- Someone who cuckolds.“Sir, from the party, / The lady you should truck with, the lord's wife / Your worship is to dub, or to make free / Of the company of the horners.”
- The British sand lance or sand eel, Hyperoplus lanceolatus.
- Someone from the Horn of Africa.
- Someone who is from the Horn of Africa.“Oromos are the most populous Horners, whilst Amharas are the most populous highland Horners”
name
- A surname.
- A hamlet in Luccombe parish, Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district and West Somerset district before that (OS grid ref SS8945).
- The River Horner or Horner Water, a minor river in Somerset which passes through the hamlet.
- An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States; from the surname.
adj
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Horn of Africa, its nations, or its inhabitants.