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staggard

[ stag-erd ]

noun

  1. a four-year-old male red deer.


staggard

/ ˈæɡə /

noun

  1. a male red deer in the fourth year of life
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of staggard1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; stag, -ard
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of staggard1

C15: see stag , -ard
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And as for my woodcraft, I can name you all the names of a male deer, from hind calf, year by year, through brocket and spayed, and staggard and stag, till his sixth year, when he is truly a hart and has his rights of brow, bay, and tray antlers.

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The Hart, the first Year is called a Hinde-Calf, 2 A Knobber, 3 A Brock, 4 A Staggard, 5 A Stagg, 6 A Hart.

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The animal is then a "staggard."

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He has a fine staggard of corn.

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Once it was a wild sow which scuttled out of the bracken, with two young sounders at her heels, and once a lordly red staggard walked daintily out from among the tree trunks, and looked around him with the fearless gaze of one who lived under the King's own high protection.

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