Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stag in his fourth year, and therefore not quite full grown.
- noun Same as
staggarth .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The male red deer when four years old.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A male
red deer when four years old.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I stayed out of that short range dangeer zone and tried to move him counter clockwise to stay away from his right (he had a big right) .. zapped him a couple good ones and he staggard.
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I stayed out of that short range dangeer zone and tried to move him counter clockwise to stay away from his right (he had a big right) .. zapped him a couple good ones and he staggard.
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Without a "staggard start" primary season, winning a party nomination would basically equate to whichever candidate is the best known nationally andhas the biggest financial load to blow.
Kucinich out, Romney Wins, Paul beats thompson and Giuliani 2008
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It is not the sole answer to congestion - staggard school oping times, flexible working and better/cheaper public transport are all required but the concept has merit and should not be so readily dismissed.
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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.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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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.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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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.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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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.
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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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.
The White Company 1890
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Persons fond of hunting have invented peculiar terms by which the objects of their pursuit are characterized: thus the stag is called, the first year, a calf, or hind-calf; the second, a knobber; the third, a brock; the fourth, a staggard; the fifth, a stag; and the sixth, a hart.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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