Stag vs. Horse

Stag vs. Horse — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Stag and Horse

Stagnoun

An adult male deer.

Horsenoun

Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.

Stagnoun

A colt, or filly.

Horsenoun

A hoofed mammal, of the genus Equus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.

Stagnoun

A romping girl.

Horsenoun

(zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass.

These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.
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Stagnoun

An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).

Horsenoun

Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).

We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.All the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again.

Stagnoun

An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.

Horsenoun

The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.

Now just remind me how the horse moves again?

Stagnoun

One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.

Horsenoun

(slang) A large person.

Every linebacker they have is a real horse.
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Stagnoun

The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.

Horsenoun

(historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

Stagnoun

An unmarried male, a bachelor; a male not accompanying a female at a social event.

a stag dance; a stag party

Horsenoun

Equipment with legs.

Stagnoun

A social event for males held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom, sometimes a fund-raiser.

The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom.

Horsenoun

In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top .

She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.

Stagnoun

A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).

Horsenoun

A frame with legs, used to support something.

a clothes horse; a sawhorse

Stagverb

To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.

Horsenoun

(nautical) Type of equipment.

Stagverb

(transitive) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.

Horsenoun

A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.

Stagadverb

Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.

My brother went stag to prom because he couldn't find a date.

Horsenoun

A breastband for a leadsman.

Stagnoun

male red deer

Horsenoun

An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.

Stagnoun

adult male deer

Horsenoun

A jackstay.

Stagverb

attend a dance or a party without a female companion

Horsenoun

(mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.

Stagverb

give away information about somebody;

He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam

Horsenoun

(slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.

Stagverb

watch, observe, or inquire secretly

Horsenoun

(US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E).

Horsenoun

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

Horsenoun

horseplay; tomfoolery

Horsenoun

Heroin drug.

Alright, mate, got any horse?

Horseverb

(intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)

Horseverb

(transitive) To provide with a horse.

Horseverb

(obsolete) To get on horseback.

Horseverb

To sit astride of; to bestride.

Horseverb

(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).

Horseverb

To take or carry on the back.

Horseverb

To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

Horsenoun

solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

Horsenoun

a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

Horsenoun

troops trained to fight on horseback;

500 horse led the attack

Horsenoun

a framework for holding wood that is being sawed

Horsenoun

a chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

Horseverb

provide with a horse or horses