Word: hornbook

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Related words: hornbook

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Translations: hornbook

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spanish
Translations:
abecedario
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german
Translations:
ABC Buch
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italian
Translations:
abecedario
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portuguese
Translations:
cartilha
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dutch
Translations:
a.b.c. boekje
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russian
Translations:
азы, азбука
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swedish
Translations:
Hornbook
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czech
Translations:
Hornbook
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turkish
Translations:
çocuk alfabesi
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ukrainian
Translations:
азбука, абетка
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bulgarian
Translations:
буквар
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belarusian
Translations:
азбука
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croatian
Translations:
bukvar
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slovak
Translations:
Hornbook

The meaning and "use of": hornbook

noun
  • a teaching aid consisting of a leaf of paper showing the alphabet, and often the ten digits and the Lord's Prayer, mounted on a wooden tablet and protected by a thin plate of horn. - One is an eighteenth-century hornbook (not illustrated), a common device for teaching the alphabet and numbers, but exceptional in this case because it is made of silver.

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