Show HOW NAME GREENHORN ONCE APPLIED TO SOLDIERS SOLDIERS- Greenhorn was originally applied applied applied ap ap- ap- ap plied to an ox with green or young fount horns and the term was wasso wasso wasso so employed as early as 1460 notes a writer In the Indianapolis News Later newly enlisted soldiers sol sol- diers or raw recruits were called greenhorns A chronicle written written written writ writ- ten in 1650 about a tight light near Leith in Scotland says lal The Scotch king being upon his castle hill castle to see lee his hi men which he called his hll Green GreenHorns GreenHorns Horns beaten In 1682 the word was used as 81 a synonym of freshwater freshwater fresh water or new As M time passed greenhorn acquired acquired acquired ac ac- the meaning of an Inexperienced inexperienced Inex inex- person or novice particularly par a raw countryman an easily eal fly ily Imposed upon Caleb Carman first met Abraham Abraham Abra ham Lincoln in 1831 while he had hada a cabin near where Lincoln and John Haw Hanks were building a flatboat flatboat flatboat flat- flat boat In which to go to New Or Or- leans leaM At first wrote Carman to William II H. Herndon in 1860 1863 he thought Lincoln a Green Horn tho after half hours houri conversation with him I found him no Green GreenHorn GreenHorn Horn In England at present an Inexperienced In experienced domestic or a green workman particularly a newly newly- arrived foreigner Is called a greener There seems leem to be no foundation foundation foundation tion for the common story that greenhorn originally referred to pointed hornlike caps of green reen cloth which insolvent Jews were compelled to wear in France during dur duro In lug ing the Uie reign of ot Louis Loul XIV in order order order or or- der to receive the protection of the bankruptcy law |