Olifant or Oliphant can refer to:In "Chaucer's Tale of Sir Topas" in The Canterbury Tales, there is a vicious, stone pelting giant named Sir Olifaunt.Lord Oliphant, a peerage title in Scotland.Mark Oliphant, an Australian physicist.olifant (instrument), a wind instrument of the middle ages, made from elephants' tusks.oliphaunt, a name used by J.R.R. Tolkien's hobbits in The Lord of the Rings to describe a monstrous elephant-like creature. Pat Oliphant is an American editorial cartoonist.Thomas Oliphant is an American journalist.Oliphant tank, a South African version of the British Centurion tank
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Roland’s ivory horn, which he blew at the Battle of Roncesvalles, 778, to announce his betrayal to Charlemange, whose rear column he commanded at the time of the battle.