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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The horn of a buck.
  • noun The material of such a horn, used especially to make handles for knives and tools.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See deerhorn.
  • noun The substance of the horns of bucks or deer, used in making knife-handles, etc.
  • noun A name for the club-moss, Lycopodium clavatum.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A horn of a buck.

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