How to pronounce “put to the horn”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive, Scots law, historical) To outlaw (a person) by three blasts of the horn at the Cross of Edinburgh.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

put on the line, put it on, pitcairn, petit four, parathion, pattison, bitumen, beaten down, beating down, baudouin