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moose horn

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a device for making such a call, especially a bark horn.

See: moose-call(def. 2)

Quotations

1922

. . . many a moose . . . has been lured to his death through the adroit use of the birchbark "moose horn."

1941

. . . Cape Horn, the birch-bark "moose horn," the "horn" of rum, the powder horn, and the famous forebuck horn cutlery, have all played their part in the annals of the fur trade.