drinking-horn

See also: drinking horn

English

Noun

drinking-horn (plural drinking-horns)

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

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