horn-spoon

Montrose, supped his brose like the rest of us, with the knife from his belt doing the office of a horn-spoon.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

"Well, what in the name of the great horn-spoon air you boys doing here," he gasped, for Harry and Billy had now come forward and were warmly shaking his hand.

The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic John Henry Goldfrap 1898

Alwin deposited the last curd in the last bowl, and stood licking the horn-spoon, and looking doubtfully at the other.

The Thrall of Leif the Lucky 1893

She added a horn-spoon and a pinch of salt, fetched a slice of coarse bread from a cupboard in one of the dressers, and taking all in skilled steady hands, hands childishly small, though brown as nuts, she disappeared through the door of the staircase.

The Long Night Stanley John Weyman 1891

We had no sooner come to the door of Mr. Henderland's dwelling, than to my great surprise (for I was now used to the politeness of Highlanders) he burst rudely past me, dashed into the room, caught up a jar and a small horn-spoon, and began ladling snuff into his nose in most excessive quantities.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

“The priest,” said he, “whose duty and office it is to pray for the people, stands up on Sunday and cries, ‘Ane has tynt a spurtill; there is a flail stollen beyond the burn; the goodwife of the other side of the gait has tynt a horn-spoon: God’s malison and mine I give to those who know of this gear and restores it not.”

Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation 1823-1886 1883

Before him was a large bicker of oatmeal-porridge, and at the side thereof, a horn-spoon and a bottle of two-penny.

The Waverley 1877

Maggie having returned with her jug full of frothy milk, and the potatoes being already heaped up in a wooden bowl or bossie in the middle of the table, sending the smoke of their hospitality to the rafters, Janet placed a smaller wooden bowl, called a caup, filled with deliciously yellow milk of Hawkie's latest gathering, for each individual of the company, with an attendant horn-spoon by its side.

David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864

Before him was a large bicker of oatmeal-porridge, and at the side thereof, a horn-spoon and a bottle of two-penny.

Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801

a small horn-spoon, and began ladling snuff into his nose in most excessive quantities.

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872