stag

IPA: stˈæg

(countable) An adult male deer, especially a red deer.
(countable, chiefly Scotland) A young horse (colt or filly).
(by extension, countable, obsolete) A romping girl; a tomboy.
(countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
(countable, finance) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
(countable, finance) 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.
(countable, usually attributive) An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
(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.
(countable, slang) An informer.
(uncountable, UK, military, slang) Guard duty.
(countable) A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
(countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.

Examples of "stag" in Sentences

The huntsman brings in older, experienced hounds, called "tufters," to separate the stag from the herd.
Some of the chapters in that section involve game theory, and one of them covers the game known as the stag hunt.
As the word a stag is the name of a single complex idea; but the word stags by a change of termination adds to this
"It is no shame for me," said Credhe, "I to die for grief after Cael, since the stag is shortening his life sorrowing after the hind."
What happens to the stag is that the huntsman walks over to it and prosaically shoots it in the head with a special short-barreled, folding-stock shotgun.
Once the stag is solitary, the huntsman's assistant, the "whipper-in," is supposed to bring up the full pack, and the hunt's members and guests fall in behind the hounds.
The stag is taken to the kennel and skinned, and all the meat cut into small pieces and put again into the hide, and the hounds then, in this cold-blooded way, rush at a mess, instead of the whole pack, in a state of excitement, falling on the hunted animal reeking with fatigue.