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Hornbook

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Noun

1. hornbook

a primer that provides instruction in the rudiments or basic skills of a branch of knowledge

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Hornbook

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noun
1. 
a page bearing a religious text or the alphabet, held in a frame with a thin window of flattened cattle horn over it
2. 
any elementary primer

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Hornbook

see synonyms of hornbook
noun
1. 
a sheet of parchment with the alphabet, a table of numbers, etc. on it, mounted on a small board with a handle and protected by a thin, transparent plate of horn: it was formerly used as a child's primer
2. 
an elementary treatise

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Hornbook

see synonyms of hornbook
n.
1. An early primer consisting of a single page protected by a transparent sheet of horn, formerly used in teaching children to read.
2. A text that instructs in the basic skills or rudiments of a subject.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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