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 1179520802:

     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