stag
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Featuring a 12-point stag on a Scottish Highland peak, it was commissioned by railway magnate Edward Betts and has passed through various private collections.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
"The stag part of the stagflation is already being felt in terms of restaurants closing down and households having less natural gas," Subramanian said.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026
The stag, who was eight years old, was one of two in the herd.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
"He was a lovely stag with a beautiful pair of antlers and was a big favourite with the public who walk through the park."
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
Horror-stricken, Taran saw not the head of a man but the antlered head of a stag.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
Most of our pets don’t pull carts, hunt stags, herd sheep or detect drugs, where we need to ensure correct performance.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
“She gave an example to other women. And she did big paintings — of horses, stags, lions — not small flowers, in pastels. That is feminist.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2022
Stags with big antlers score more often than stags with small ones.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2022
“I just kind of see it as two stags locking up in the forest,” Cole said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
Elegant white stags roamed the streets like citizens, and reptiles big as men drifted in the river.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
He clambered laboriously from the shallows, the water draining from the bottom of his "stagged" trousers.
From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White
"Why I mean, my lord, I stagged him."
The tight driver's shoe and "stagged" trousers had not then come into use.
From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White
Well; we coom back through t' teawn; an' we were both on us fair stagged up.
From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Edwin Waugh
He is stagged; there is a game playing, but what I know not.
From Count Alarcos; a Tragedy by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Ltd. $20,000,000, and there was said to be "hardly any stagging."
From Time Magazine Archive
But too many of the cadets were "stagging it" that night.
From Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point Finding the Glory of the Soldier's Life by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
A young stripling or two may drop in, stagging it.
From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell
"I should cut the concern," said Watson, "and take to stagging in Surrey."
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
The cove was touting, but stagging the traps he toddled; be was looking out, and feeing the officers he walked away.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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