olifant
nounEtymology From Middle English olifaunt, from Old French oliphaunt, from Latin elephantus. See elephant.
1
Historical An ancient hunting horn, made of ivory.
- And he sang them the staves of the Olifant, the magic horn,—how Roland would not sound it in his pride, and sounded it at Turpin’s bidding, but too late[.]1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 35, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 479:
2
Obsolete An elephant.
- She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, / Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. / […] / His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes / Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnovves vvhere he feeds / His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.1613, Thomas Heywood, The Brazen Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, Act II, signature [C4], verso: