horn spoon

noun

1

: a spoon made of horn

—used chiefly interjectionally in the phrase by the great horn spoon

cookies, by the great horn spoon

—Hamlin Garland

2

or less commonly horn : a small receptacle like a trough made from a section of cow horn and used for careful washing tests in gold mining

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