Friday, April 2, 2010

Horner

Someone who carves horn to fashion spoons, combs, and other implements. A musician who plays the horn or trumpet.

“The messenger must read the letters, also with an audible voice, and afterwards blow three blasts with an horn; by which the debtor is understood to be proclaimed rebel to the King. Hence the letters of diligence are called letters of horning, and the debtor is said to be denounced at the horn.”

John Erskine, An Institute of the Law of Scotland (1765).

Scale of 1 to 10—5. Both carvers and musicians get to express their artistic sides. That horn players often are used to lead troops into war, though, is one decided downside to taking up the instrument.

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