deer
IPA: dˈɪr
noun
- A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla.
- (in particular) One of the smaller animals of this family, distinguished from a moose or elk
- The meat of such an animal; venison.
- (obsolete, except in the phrase "small deer") Any animal, especially a quadrupedal mammal as opposed to a bird, fish, etc.
- A village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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Examples of "deer" in Sentences
- But in one thing the tiger is better off than the deer: _the tiger can see farther than the deer_.
- Sitting in a tree and waiting on a deer is one thing, being able to track and sneak up on a deer is another.
- Before season starts i just go to where the deer are and make a blind and I have killed all of my deer from a blind.
- II. i.100 (161,5) [too unruly deer] The ambiguity of _deer_ and _dear_ is borrowed, poor as it is, by Waller, in his poem on the _Ladies
- There are a few other kinds of deer in America, but the funniest of them is called the _mule deer_, which lives along the Rocky Mountains.
- III. i.91 (443,8) It was my deer] The play upon _deer_ and _dear_ has been used by Waller, who calls a lady's girdle, _The pale that held my lovely_ deer.
- What a buck some people have all the luck but i rather be lucky than good any day i just cant get over how big this deer is and all the points coming out every where congrads on a magnificent buck i dont think you can ever beat that in your life time if you do iam coming to ill. and hunting beside you.
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