post horn

1. 1.

   wind instrument used by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries

   Broaderwind instrument

Questions about post horn

What does post horn mean?

post horn means "wind instrument used by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries".

Is post horn a common word?

post horn is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.