horner, n.1
(ˈhɔːnə(r))
[f. horn n. or v. + -er1.]
1. A worker in horn; a maker of horn spoons, combs, etc.
| 1421–2 [see horning vbl. n. 2]. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 247/1 Hornare, or horne make[r], cornutarius. 1464 Rolls Parl. V. 567/1 The men of the Craft of Horners enfraunchised in the Cite of London. 1484 Nottingham Rec. II. 346 Georgius Hoton..horner. 1607 Dekker Knt.'s Conjur. (1842) 18 The head-warden of the horners. 1766 Entick London IV. 309 The most reputable inhabitants are the horners, who prepare horn for petty manufacturers. 1896 A. W. Tuer Hist. Horn-Bk. I. vii. 91 The Horners' Exhibition held in London in 1882. |
† b. One who makes musical horns. Obs.
| 1530 Palsgr. 232/2 Horner a maker of hornes, cornettier. 1552 Loseley MSS. (Kempe 1835) 53 Horner for blowinge hornes, turner for daggers. |
2. One who blows or winds a horn.
| 14.. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 575/31 Cornicarius, an hornere. 1611 Cotgr., Corneux, a Horner; a winder of a Horne. 1677 N. Cox Gentlem. Recreat. (ed. 2) A iv b, Mr. Michael Marsh, Horner..who teaches to blow the Horn. 1827 in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 121 The keeper..blew ‘the death of the buck’, and..the horners..answered him. 1894 F. R. Stockton Pomona's Trav. 25 The horner blew his horn until his eyes seemed bursting. |
† 3. One who cuckolds; a cuckold-maker. Obs.
| 1598 Florio, Cornaro,..a horner. 1690 D'Urfey Collin's Walk iii. (D.), Till th' Jury..Their favour gave with sense adorn'd, Not to the horner, but the horn'd. 1717 Bullock Woman a Riddle i. i, A cornuted coxcomb, that cou'd not smell his Horner from his house-dog. |
† 4. A person who has been ‘put to the horn’ or declared a rebel. Sc. Obs.
| 1590 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 525/1 Thair names salbe deleit out of the catologe of hornaris and..they sall not be forder troublit for that horning in tyme cuming. 1598 Ibid. IV. 174/2 To the effect the haill horneris registrat thairin and remaneing vnrelaxt may be extractit and chargit. |
Hence † ˈhorneress, a female worker in horn or maker of horns.
| 1530 Palsgr. 232/2 Horneresse, a woman, cornettiere. |