It, as most Old English words, came from Germanic and like the modern German word for squirrel essentially means "oak horn."

正如大部分古英语词，它来自于日耳曼语，跟现代德语中松鼠这个词一样，实际上是“橡树喇叭”的意思。

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An alto oboe; precursor of the English horn.

一种次高音双簧管；英国管的先驱。

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English saddles are very small: they have no saddle horn, and the stirrups are smaller than those on Western saddles.

英式马鞍非常小：它没有桩头（可能是专有名词），马镫也比西式马鞍的要小。

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