Word Finder - stags

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An adult male deer.

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A colt, or filly.

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(by extension) A romping girl; a tomboy.

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

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

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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.

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The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.

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(usually attributive) An unmarried male, a bachelor; a male not accompanying a female at a social event.

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a stag dance; a stag party

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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.

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

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A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).

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Guard duty.

In its park there are a great number of stags and wild boars.

Even the vast forest of Middlesex, with its densely wooded thickets, its coverts of game, stags, fallow deer, boars and wild bulls is pressed into the description to give a contrast which shall enhance the beauty of the city itself.

The cry of the stags in the breeding season is also different.

They are evolved to pull down stags and their jaws are hugely powerful.

The stags, (male red deer) are in the process of growing their new antlers.

When hunting stags, the hunters will choose a deer with a fine set of antlers for trophies, whereas any hind will suffice.

Another feature by which this species differs from the American deer is the conformation of the bones of the lower part of the fore-leg, which have the same structure as in the red deer group. The coat is of moderate length, but the hair on the neck and throat of the old stags is elongated to form a mane and fringe.

The stags, ( male red deer) are in the process of growing their new antlers.

When she came back to England she brought from Europe scores of stags ' antlers as souvenirs of the chase.

The red stags with the golden antlers come from the crest of Erith where they were a connection with Lord Eardley of Belvedere House.

The Stags' Leap Winery is one of the earliest wine estates in the Stags' Leap AVA.

Stags' Leap Winery's grapes grow loamy clay with volcanic soil yielding powerful wines with sturdy tannins.

Emblematic of Stags' Leap Winery is the old stone manor built in 1888 by Chase, with the stone winery and caves following a few years later in 1893.

In 1909, after indulging in the typical lavish high life not uncommon in Napa Valley, Chase, low on fortune, sold Stags' Leap.

Brittan infused the estate with his passion, independence, and drive to deftly set the Stags' Leap's course and preserve its unique terroir.

Wines from Stags' Leap have a signature of concentrated fruit, rich expression, opulence, and complex structure; all reflecting the estate's inherent terroir and its winemaker.

In 1998, another successful and historic wine group, Napa's Beringer Wine Estates, acquired Stags' Leap Winery.

This global wine company can leverage advantages in its marketing and distribution of Stags' Leap and other brands.

Ownership changed hands, but its winemaker, Robert Brittan, stayed on and was given free hand to continue operating Stags' Leap as before.

There is perpetual confusion in trying to distinguish between the Stags' Leap Winery and Stag's Leap Wine Cellars.

Both are located in the Stags Leap District AVA, both operate in the same neighborhood off the Silverado Trail, and both have a dashing buck on their labels.

Stags' Leap Winery claims the historical right of way because of its earlier origin.

Stags' Leap Winery wines have a reputation as big-but-soft in character, reflecting and reflect the estate's, distinctive soil and climate.

Telephone 1.800.640.5327 to speak to Stags' Leap Winery directly.

In 1999 Ray Duncan acquired the 150-acre Soda Canyon Ranch in Napa Valley, south of Stags Leap, to create Twomey Cellars.

These deer are particularly fond of horsechestnuts, which the stags are said to endeavour to procure by striking at the branches with their antlers.

Like our Scottish stags at the rutting season, they roar loudest in cold frosty nights; but on no occasions are their voices to be heard in such perfection, or so intensely powerful, as when two or three troops of strange lions approach a fountain to drink at the same time.

Their efforts in this direction are seldom unsuccessful; and it appears to be a fact that stags which are hunted season after season come to understand that they are in no grave danger.

Popular items for the stags include stag antlers, blow up dolls, handcuffs, inflatable sheep, rubber boobs & bare bum shorts.

They are royal stags and fallow bucks because this was a Royal Forest.

It is not only red deer stags that are hunted, hinds are hunted also.

Stags' Leap Winery produces consistently good, reasonably priced red and white wines.