put to the horn

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put to the horn (third-person singular simple present puts to the horn, present participle putting to the horn, simple past and past participle put to the horn)

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