Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of a pair of hornlike, bony, deciduous growths, often elongated and branched, on the head of an adult member of the deer family, usually found only on males.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Originally, the first tine or branch of the horns of a deer.
- noun Any of the principal tines or branches of a deer's horns: with a descriptive prefix or epithet. (See below.)
- noun Now, when used absolutely, one of the solid deciduous horns of the Cervidœ, or deer family, which are periodically shed and renewed, as distinguished from the permanent hollow horns of other ruminants.
- noun Same as
antler-moth .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag.
- noun (Zoöl.) a destructive European moth (
Cerapteryx graminis ), which devastates grass lands.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a branching and bony structure on the head of
deer ,moose andelk , normally in pairs. They are grown and shed each year. (Compare withhorn , which is generally not shed.)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun deciduous horn of a member of the deer family
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Yes | No | Report from tmanhill wrote 46 weeks 4 days ago the lab and with the antler is awesome
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Yes | No | Report from tmanhill wrote 49 weeks 4 days ago the lab and with the antler is awesome
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Robert Frank has argued in a very important book called The Darwin Economy that excessive competition in nature produces what he called the antler effect.
Is capitalism broken... and what is the world going to do to fix it? 2011
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A 6 pt. about a 22in. spread and the brow tines were 6in. or so the G2's were about12,13in. and nothing else other than main antler that stretched out another 15 or so in s was waiting to hear of this non typ. to be advertised! it was approx. mile marker 184 of the ohio TP which is the area of (bedford) 0 Good Comment?
Ohio Hunter Bags Potential State-Record Buck With Potential World-Record Beams 2009
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I really wish I lived in better whitetail territory, but in these parts anything wearing antler is quickly taken.
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Also, consider that the antler is in sense acting as a plug, compacting the flesh and blood vessels and restricting blood flow (similar to a tourniquet).
Field & Stream 2009
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Also, consider that the antler is in sense acting as a plug, compacting the flesh and blood vessels and restricting blood flow (similar to a tourniquet).
Field & Stream 2009
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A 6 pt. about a 22in. spread and the brow tines were 6in. or so the G2's were about12,13in. and nothing else other than main antler that stretched out another 15 or so in s was waiting to hear of this non typ. to be advertised! it was approx. mile marker 184 of the ohio TP which is the area of (bedford) 0 Good Comment?
Ohio Hunter Bags Potential State-Record Buck With Potential World-Record Beams 2009
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He is accused of killing the world's largest eight-point buck, in antler size, on Halloween night ....
Update: Accused Poacher Says He Found Record 8-Point Dead, Pleads Not Guilty 2009
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I really wish I lived in better whitetail territory, but in these parts anything wearing antler is quickly taken.
bilby commented on the word antler
A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
January 1, 2008
hepburn commented on the word antler
Joey: Um, when Cinderella woke up, she was real thirsty…so she went to a 7-Eleven for a Slurpee…where she ran into Bullwinkle. So Bullwinkle says, "Hello, Cinderella. Would you like to come to the ball with me? Not only am I a great dancer…but you can hang your coat on my antlers." Kids love this stuff. So.. (1-2)
January 23, 2012