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Hart

//hɑːt//

Definitions

1
A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
With milke-white Hartes vpon an Iuorie ſled, Thou ſhalt be drawen amidſt the froſen Pooles, And ſcale the yſie mountaines lofty tops: Which with thy beautie will be soone reſolu’d.
Similar
buck stag
2
The meat from this animal.
We are to have hart for dinner on Jack’s birthday; you call it deer in Grenada.
3
Obsolete spelling of heart.
For this reliefe much thanks, tis bitter cold, / And I am ſick at hart.
4
In the RISC-V instruction set architecture, a hardware thread.
It is required by the RISC-V specification that at least one hart be assigned an ID of 0.
5
Initialism of hazardous area response team.

name

1
An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname from Middle English hert (“stag, hart”).
2
A surname from Irish anglicised from the Irish Ó hAirt (“descendant of a person named Bear or Champion”
3
A village and civil parish in Hartlepool borough, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4735).

Word Origin

From Middle English hert, from Old English heorot (“stag”), from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz (compare Dutch hert, German Hirsch, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish hjort), from Pre-...

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