stag's horn
Britishnoun
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the antlers of a stag used as a material for carved implements
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a creeping variety of club moss, Lycopodium clavatum , growing on moors and mountains, having silvery hair points on its leaves
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The second branch of a stag's horn.
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The second tine of a stag's horn.
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A pick axe made of flint, chisels of flint stone, sling-stones, lance-like instruments, earthenware vessels, carbonized wheat, half of an apple petrified, hand hatchet of bone, knife of bone, dagger of bone, dagger of horn, shovel of stag’s horn, tumbler of horn, shuttle made of bear’s teeth, sewing needle, very crude, made of bird’s bone.
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Above it was a star of palm leaves and fern, radiating from a centre, which was concealed by an immense stag's horn fungus.
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On her right hand, a few feet in the rear, leaning on a yew bow six feet in length, stood Cormac Dermot, his stag's horn, richly inlaid and curiously carved with woodland devices, slung beneath his left shoulder, with the mouthpiece brought round in front ready for use.
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