Also loor. [ad. Da. and Norse lur, ON. lúðr. Cf. Shetland looder-horn.] A long curved trumpet, used for calling cattle.
1840. Ht. Martineau, Feats on Fiord, ix. (1841), 217. She … took in her hand her lure, with which to call home the cattle … and stole away.
1877. Burroughs, Birds & Poets (1884), 162. At evening the cows are summoned home with a long horn, called the loor.
