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- put to the horn (obsolete Scots law)To outlaw by three blasts of the horn at the Cross of Edinburgh• • •Main Entry: ↑horn
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Put to the horn — proclaimed an outlaw (as in the case of Rob Roy MacGregor). Rob also suffered from … Scottish slang
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