Meaning of staggart | Babel Free

Definitions

A four-year-old male deer, identified by having three-pronged antlers.

Examples

“Now the antler'd monarch springs From his lair in tangled glade ; Now through waken'd forest rings Echo with the music made ; Now the bass of manly throat (As the bounding staggart flies) Mingles with the softer note⟳, As some dame or maiden tries With her silv'ry voice to cheer⟳ Laggard hound, who panting hies Baying deeply in the rear;”

“Over came all the herd, one by one, hinds and calves, “brockets” and “staggarts,” then the “warrantable deer,” the rear brought up by a magnificent old stag.”

“Stumberleap reared up on his hind legs, then plunged down his head, and his antlers rattled against the antlers of the staggart.”

“I feel⟳ like⟳ an old stag squired by a staggart: but as Windles and the fan get⟳ on happily together, all is well.”

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