What does Hornbook mean?
Definitions for Hornbook
ˈhɔrnˌbʊkhorn·book
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Princeton's WordNet
hornbooknoun
a primer that provides instruction in the rudiments or basic skills of a branch of knowledge
Wiktionary
hornbooknoun
A single page containing the alphabet, covered with a sheet of transparent horn, formerly used for teaching children to read.
hornbooknoun
A legal textbook that gives a basic overview of a particular area of law.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Hornbooknoun
The first book of children, covered with horn to keep it unsoiled.
Etymology: horn and book.
He teaches boys the hornbook. William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour Lost.
Nothing has been considered of this kind out of the ordinary road of the hornbook and primer. John Locke.
To master John the English maid
A hornbook gives of ginger-bread;
And that the child may learn the better,
As he can name, he eats the letter. Matthew Prior.
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hornbook
A hornbook is an educational tool or manuscript used in teaching children fundamental principles or subjects such as alphabets, spelling, or mathematics, especially during the early Modern period (16th to 18th centuries). It was typically a wooden paddle with printed materials attached, such as text or numerical information, covered with a thin layer of horn to protect it.
Webster Dictionary
Hornbooknoun
the first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer
Hornbooknoun
a book containing the rudiments of any science or branch of knowledge; a manual; a handbook
Wikidata
Hornbook
A hornbook is a book that serves as primer for study. The hornbook originated in England in 1450. The term has been applied to a few different study materials in different fields. In children's education, in the years before modern education materials were used, it referred to a leaf or page containing the alphabet, religious materials, etc., covered with a sheet of transparent horn and fixed in a frame with a handle.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Hornbook
was a sheet of vellum or paper used in early times for teaching the rudiments of education, on which were inscribed the alphabet in black or Roman letters, some monosyllables, the Lord's Prayer, and the Roman numerals; this sheet was covered with a slice of transparent horn, and was still in use in George II.'s reign.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Hornbook in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Hornbook in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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