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POST HORN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does post horn mean?
• POST HORN (noun)
The noun POST HORN has 1 sense:
1. wind instrument used by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries
Familiarity information: POST HORN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wind instrument used by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("post horn" is a kind of...):
wind; wind instrument (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath)
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