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bighorn

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

big·horn / ˈbigˌhôrn/ • n. (in full American bighorn sheep) a stocky brown North American wild sheep (Ovis canadensis) found esp. in the Rocky Mountains.

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Bighorn

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Bighorn, Montana‐Wyoming/USA Mountains, a river, a lake, and a city all have this name from the sheep found in the Rocky Mountains, often called ‘bighorn’.

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bighorn

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

bighorn •adorn, born, borne, bourn, Braun, brawn, corn, dawn, drawn, faun, fawn, forborne, forewarn, forlorn, freeborn, horn, lawn, lorn, morn, mourn, newborn, Norn, outworn, pawn, porn, prawn, Quorn, sawn, scorn, Sean, shorn, spawn, suborn, sworn, thorn, thrawn, torn, Vaughan, warn, withdrawn, worn, yawn •airborne • Ayckbourn • seaborne •Eastbourne • stillborn • highborn •Osborne • winterbourne •waterborne • firstborn • Apeldoorn •althorn • hartshorn • leghorn •greenhorn • bighorn • inkhorn •tinhorn • foghorn • longhorn •shorthorn • shoehorn • Flügelhorn •bullhorn • alpenhorn • Matterhorn •acorn • seedcorn • sweetcorn •barleycorn • unicorn • Capricorn •leprechaun • tricorne • einkorn •popcorn • Runcorn • peppercorn •lovelorn • frogspawn • wire-drawn •wartorn • blackthorn • hawthorn •careworn • time-worn • shopworn •toilworn

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Free newspaper and magazine articles

	BARTERING IN BIGHORNS.(Outdoors) Newspaper article from: The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM); 8/14/2003
	Sierra Bighorns Need Protection.(Brief Article) Magazine article from: National Parks; 5/1/1999
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