horner

From Middle English horner, hornere, equivalent to horn +‎ -er.

horner (plural horners)

1. Someone who works or deals in (animal) horn or horns.
   • 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:

     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

   • 1873, Calendar of State Papers:

     As also all patents for new inventions not put in practice within three years, likewise the several grants of incorporation to hatband makers, gutstring makers, spectacle makers, comb makers, tobacco-pipe makers, butchers, and horners.

2. (obsolete) Someone who blows a horn (the musical instrument); a hornblower.
3. (obsolete) Someone who cuckolds.
   • 1624, Philip Massinger, “The Parliament of Love”, in William Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger‎, published 1845, act 4, scene 3, page 164:

     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.

4. The British sand lance or sand eel, Hyperoplus lanceolatus.
5. Someone from the Horn of Africa.

• “horner”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Herron, Rohner

horner

1. Alternative form of hornere