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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