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around the horn

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Prepositional phrase

  1. Around the infield.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of around the Horn.
  3. Via shipboard communications, formerly metal tubes with earhorn-like ends.
  4. Following the extremely hazardous naval route around Cape Horn, the southernmost point in South America.

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