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  • noun obsolete A battle cry.

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Examples

  • Would you trust anyone who managed to convert "sluagh-gharim" i.e. war-cry into the entirely non-existent "slughorn"?

    languagehat.com: THINKING FULL WELL. 2004

  • The faint notes of the slughorn came to their ears.

    In the Court of King Arthur

  • Now he again made his way to her castle wall where his herald did blow his slughorn and announce that the Red Knight of the Red Lawns besought the light of the lady's countenance and also word with her.

    In the Court of King Arthur

  • Dauntless the slughorn to my lips I set, and blew "Child Roland to the dark tower came."

    The Dark Tower Phyllis Bottome 1923

  • We are left in doubt whether those who have found failure in this quest, have not done so through the very act of attainment in it; and when, dauntless, Childe Roland sounds his slughorn and announces that he has come, we should not know, but that he lives to tell the tale, whether in doing this he incurs, or is escaping, the general doom.

    A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Sutherland Orr 1865

  • I liked it, the part where harry took the felix was great when he clapped hargrid and slughorn LMAO yes!!

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • I have seen several sites that refer to the Draught of Living Death which is the only potion among those slughorn mentions that we don’t seem to see any use of.

    A Potter Prediction 2005

  • December 14th, 2005 at 5:04 pm dd was the transfiguration teacher he is a animagus a pheonix in fact thats why he’s always busy with fire remeber the funeral? a big flame than harry saw a pheonix flying away lily blood is now in moldywort and pp own harry a favor harry scar was given to him by lily its lily soul /eyes she was at slughorn and was very good at charms

    Just Finished Reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005

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