stag's horn

/ ˈstæɡˌhɔːn /

noun

1. the antlers of a stag used as a material for carved implements
2. a creeping variety of club moss, Lycopodium clavatum , growing on moors and mountains, having silvery hair points on its leaves

Example Sentences

I got a picklock and several skeleton keys, I put in a tin box several doses of the aroph-that is, some honey mixed with pounded stag's horn to make it thick enough, and the next morning I went to the "Hotel de Bretagne," and immediately tried my picklock.

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The second branch of a stag's horn.

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The second tine of a stag's horn.

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A pick axe made of flint, chisels of flint stone, sling-stones, lance-like instruments, earthenware vessels, carbonized wheat, half of an apple petrified, hand hatchet of bone, knife of bone, dagger of bone, dagger of horn, shovel of stag’s horn, tumbler of horn, shuttle made of bear’s teeth, sewing needle, very crude, made of bird’s bone. 

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Above it was a star of palm leaves and fern, radiating from a centre, which was concealed by an immense stag's horn fungus.

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