Stag vs. Horse: What's the Difference?

The adult male of various deer, especially the red deer.

A large hoofed mammal (Equus caballus) having a short coat, a long mane, and a long tail, domesticated since ancient times and used for riding and for drawing or carrying loads.

An animal, especially a pig, castrated after reaching sexual maturity.

An adult male horse; a stallion.

A person who attends a social gathering unaccompanied by a partner, especially a man who is unaccompanied by a woman.

Any of various equine mammals, such as the wild Asian species Przewalski's horse or certain extinct forms related ancestrally to the modern horse.

A social gathering for men only.

A frame or device, usually with four legs, used for supporting or holding.

Of or for men only

(Sports) A vaulting horse.

Pornographic

(Slang) Heroin.

Unaccompanied

Often horses Horsepower

To attend a social gathering unaccompanied by a partner. Used especially of men.

Mounted soldiers; cavalry

(countable) An adult male deer.

A block of rock interrupting a vein and containing no minerals.

(countable) A colt, or filly.

A large block of displaced rock that is caught along a fault.

A romping girl; a tomboy.

To provide with a horse.

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

To haul or hoist energetically

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

To be in heat. Used of a mare.

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.

Of or relating to a horse

An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.

Mounted on horses

(countable) A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.

Drawn or operated by a horse.

Guard duty.

Larger or cruder than others in the same category

(countable) A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).

A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

(countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.

Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.

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

(zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.

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

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

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

A component of certain games.

The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.

(slang) A large and sturdy person.

A colt, or filly; also, a romping girl.

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

A castrated bull; - called also bull stag, and bull seg. See the Note under Ox.

Equipment with legs.

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

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.

The European wren.

A frame with legs, used to support something.

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

(nautical) Type of equipment.

To watch; to dog, or keep track of.

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

Male red deer

A breastband for a leadsman.

Adult male deer

An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.

Attend a dance or a party without a female companion

A jackstay.

Give away information about somebody;

(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.

Watch, observe, or inquire secretly

(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).

(uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.

(prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

Horseplay; tomfoolery.

(slang) Heroin drug.

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

(transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.

(transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.

(obsolete) To get on horseback.

To sit astride of; to bestride.

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

To take or carry on the back.

To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.

(by extension) To flog.

(transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.

(informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.

To urge at work tyrannically.

To charge for work before it is finished.

A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (Equus caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.

The male of the genus Equus, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.

Mounted soldiery; cavalry; - used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; - distinguished from foot.

A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.

A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.

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.

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination; - called also trot, pony, Dobbin.

Heroin.

Horsepower.

To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.

To sit astride of; to bestride.

To mate with (a mare); - said of the male.

To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.

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

To get on horseback.

Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

A padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

Troops trained to fight on horseback;

A framework for holding wood that is being sawed

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

Provide with a horse or horses