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
Example Sentences
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All Sunday Fanny sewed frills under the stag's horn, and when she went to meet Julien in the late afternoon, she had the frills still in a parcel.
From The Happy Foreigner by Bagnold, Enid
His jacket has buttons of stag's horn and stag's teeth depend from his watch-chain.
From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Hauptmann, Gerhart
Her bed was overhung by a large branch of stag's horn fixed upon the wall.
From The Happy Foreigner by Bagnold, Enid
He was a big fellow, and strongly built, his body painted all over, with a stag’s horn on each cheek and large circles round his eyes.
From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Ashes of wolf's skull, stag's horn, the heads of mice, the eyes of crabs, owl's brains, liver of frogs, viper's fat, grasshoppers, bats, etc., these supplied the alkalis which were prescribed.
From Life in a Thousand Worlds by Harris, W. S. (William Shuler)
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