antler

[ US /ˈæntɫɝ/ ]
[ UK /ˈæntlɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. deciduous horn of a member of the deer family
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How To Use antler In A Sentence

  • Flakes with concavities exhibiting steep, unifacial retouch were used to whittle or plane wood, and flakes displaying spurs were used to incise bone or antler.
  • The auctioneer's podium faced a wall hung with six sets of mounted antlers each side of a large red deer's head. Times, Sunday Times
  • The antlers are placed together, held by sandbags and glued with epoxy.
  • An adjoining room is littered with mementos of more recent island history: a rack of antlers, a rusty plow, and an old dentist's chair.
  • No blood sports are involved: deer shed their antlers once a year. Times, Sunday Times
  • In "La muerte en el este de Edén/Death in the East of Eden," Hernandez has painted Eve, our foremother, as a dead naked woman wearing the mask of a luchador with orange antlers. Max Benavidez: ELAC's VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene
  • Female reindeer rule over males during the short season when males have shed their antlers prior to growing new ones and the females have not yet shed theirs.
  • They carried candles and wore masks: an eggshell face with antlers; a patchwork harlequin; a Casanova; a Scaramouch. The Faculty Club
  • To make the glyphs, the ancient carvers used chisels, probably of hard, fine-grained quartzite, which they struck with hammers of stone or antler, each blow chipping out one small stone flake.
  • The red-coated, many-antlered buck acknowledged the lordship of the spirit of the place and dozed knee-deep in the cool, shaded pool. All Gold Canon
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