from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A curved wooden horn, sometimes as long as 6 meters (approximately 20 feet), used by herders in the Alps to call cows to pasture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Alternative spelling of alphorn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A curved wooden horn about three feet long, with a cupped mouthpiece and a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A long, powerful horn, curving up and widening toward its extremity, formerly used on the Alps to convey signals and to sound the charge in battle, but now employed only by cowherds. Also called alp-horn.
German : Alpen, Alps + Horn, horn (from Middle High German, from Old High German.(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)