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 insturment); a hornblower.
3. (obsolete) Someone who cuckolds.
   • 1624, Massinger, Philip, “The Parliament of Love”, in Gifford, William, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger‎, Act 4, Scene 3, published 1845, 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.

• horner in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• Herron, Rohner

horner

1. Alternative form of hornere