stag
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Scene in Braemar features a 12-point stag on a Highland peak.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 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
Then, while out for my brother's stag do in a Liverpool nightclub, something happened that I haven't been able to forget since.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
“But the dogs will tire before the stag does, so we place additional relays of dogs along the trail to take over when the others are winded.”
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
Adult males, known as stags, can measure over a metre tall at the shoulder.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2023
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
The fenced pastures for the bulls were now overrun with thousands of young stags and pullets, pecking at the trail of food he threw out from the golf cart.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
Stags with big antlers score more often than stags with small ones.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2022
The glass eyes of Lord Fredrick’s taxidermy collection stared at her accusingly: the bear, the moose, the stags, the foxes, the many varieties of birds, and, of course, the elk.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
"Why I mean, my lord, I stagged him."
But month after month went by, an' th' brass kept gettin' less, do what we would; an' th' times geet wur, till at last we fund ersels fair stagged up.
From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Waugh, Edwin
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 Waugh, Edwin
"For we don't really want to go to the seminary; we go to school here in Milton," which peculiar association of ideas rather stagged General MacKenzie.
From The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Hill, Grace Brooks
He is stagged; there is a game playing, but what I know not.
From Count Alarcos; a Tragedy by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
Ltd. $20,000,000, and there was said to be "hardly any stagging."
From Time Magazine Archive
A young stripling or two may drop in, stagging it.
From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine
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 Grose, Francis
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 Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
"I should cut the concern," said Watson, "and take to stagging in Surrey."
From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony
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