What does well-horned mean?
Well-horned means Having large or fine horns or antlers..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Having large or fine horns or antlers..
1844, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Vol. XLVII, p. 131, https://books.google.ca/books?id=sGsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA131&dq=%22best-horned%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAro7Apf3MAhUJx2MKHSeMCJgQ6AEImgEwGQ#v=onepage&q=%22best-horned%22&f=false The best horned cattle are those of Dalecarlia.
In races of sheep where both sexes are equally well horned castration has no effect on the development of horns (the same thing applies in the analogous case of reindeer. […]).
Bikehandles was a well-horned billy-goat.
He was a handsome buck, well horned with a huge rack of antlers; / Tyrrhus’s boys had been feeding him since he’d been torn from his mother’s / Dugs.
Piebald males often tolerate the presence of several other well-horned males in their vicinity but these can always be graded by colour and clearly represent hierarchically ordered age-classes.
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Well-horned means Having large or fine horns or antlers..
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1844, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Vol. XLVII, p. 131, https://books.google.ca/books?id=sGsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA131&dq=%22best-horned%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAro7Apf3MAhUJx2MKHSeMCJgQ6AEImgEwGQ#v=onepage&q=%22best-horned%22&f=false The best horned cattle are those of Dalecarlia.
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