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round the Horn

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1. round the Horn - Verb

2. round the Horn - Phrase

Meaning

round the Horn

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round the Horn (third-person singular simple present rounds the Horn, present participle rounding the Horn, simple past and past participle rounded the Horn)

To sail around Cape Horn.
The entire crew was nervous as they began to round the Horn.

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The waves round the horn will toss us to and fro, to and fro like a rubber duckie in the bathtub of an angry God. Arthur M. Jolly

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