corneter

Corneter is a rare, mostly dialectal or hunting-context verb meaning to sound a horn — historically used for blowing a hunting horn (corneter la vue, corneter l'hallali) to signal to hounds and riders during a hunt.

• Le veneur cornetait pour signaler la vue du cerf. — The huntsman sounded the horn to signal sighting the stag.
• On entendait corneter au loin dans la forêt. — You could hear the horn sounding far off in the forest.
• Il a corneté l'hallali à la fin de la chasse. — He blew the kill call at the end of the hunt.

This is specialized hunting vocabulary from a tradition-bound register — a learner will only meet it in writing about venery (la vénerie), never in ordinary modern French.