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Definition of Staggard
1. n. The male red deer when four years old.
Definition of Staggard
1. Noun. A male red deer when four years old. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Staggard
1. a full-grown male red deer [n -S]
Medical Definition of Staggard
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Staggard
Literary usage of Staggard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1899)
"168, Boll 9 d). staggard. According to Manwood (Forest ... 41 v) a staggard is
a hart of the fourth year. The word occurs in an inquisition held at Somer- ..."
2. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1876)
"Manwood, in his ' Forest Laws,' also bears out these terms, except that in the
fourth year he calls him a staggard, in the fifth a stag, but adds, ..."
3. The New Sporting Magazine (1839)
"Some ancient writers called him a stag at the fourth year, and not a staggard,
and at the fifth year a great stag. And others thought that a stag, ..."
4. Notes on the Chase of the Wild Red Deer in the Counties of Devon and by Charles Palk Collyns (1902)
"... the fourth year you shall call him a staggard ; the fifth year you shall call
him a stag ; the sixth year you shall call him a hart. ..."
5. Reunion of the Sons and Daughters of the Town of Wilmington Held at by Kittredge Haskins (1890)
"[Some one has interlined before the word " staggard " the word " I." AAB] October
14,. Met according to Warning and passed through some maneuvers with a ..."
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