Definition of "hart" []

• A male deer, especially a male red deer over five years old. (noun)

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• ""Well, now," laughed Maudlin, "it has at least been seen that the hart is the whitest of harts.""
• "'Well, now,' laughed Maudlin, 'it has at least been seen that the hart is the whitest of harts.'"
• ""That's what we call the hart's tongue," said he, "though I fancy they give them all different names in different places.""