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elk

Definitions

noun

  1. large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
  2. large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America
  3. common deer of temperate Europe and Asia

Examples

Police believe a gang of up to five men were responsible for a raid on a Melksham store in which hundreds of pounds were stolen from an unlocked office.

Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century.

¶ Fresshe sturgyon, breme, perche in gelly, a Ioll of samon, sturgyon, and welkes; apples & peres rosted with suger candy.

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deer

Definitions

noun

  1. distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers

Examples

The breaking of a branch under my foot alarmed the deer.

The auctioneer's podium faced a wall hung with six sets of mounted antlers each side of a large red deer's head.

Red Deer Catholic schools are publicly funded schools within the province of Alberta.

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