staggardn.
/ˈstaɡəd/ archaic.† 2. A swan (? above one year old). Obsolete. rare.
1. A stag in its fourth year.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > in its fourth year
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a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xxii An hynde commonlyche hathe hir traces more holowe þenne a staggard or a stagge.
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) ii Þe first yere þat thei be calfede, þei be ycalle a calfe.., þe iiii. yere a stagard.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 235 An Hart is called the firste yeare a Calfe, the seconde a Brocket, the thirde a Spayde, the fourth a Staggerd, the fifth a Stagge.
1782 J. Elphinston tr. Martial Epigrams i. ii. xxxi. 26 The staggard [L. cervi] champs the golden bit.
1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. iv. 63 A stag is called a brocket until he is three years old; at four years he is a staggart.
1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 517/2 At this stage he [i.e. the deer] is styled a ‘staggard’.
1891 A. Conan Doyle White Company iii A lordly red staggard walked daintily out from among the tree-trunks.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Cyginae (swans) > [noun] > member of genus Cygnus (miscellaneous) > cygnus olor (common swan) > young
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1619 in Coates Reading (1802) 59 Swans..the signetts at 4s. 6d. a-piece, and the staggards at 6s. a-piece.
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