hart

plural harts

1. countableA male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.

   Then, finding Herds of luſtie Deare, / She Huntreſſe-like the Hart purſues; […]

   1612, Michael Drayton, “The thirteenth Song”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 213

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   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.

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii

   Synonyms: buck, stag

2. uncountableThe meat from this animal.

   We are to have hart for dinner on Jack’s birthday; you call it deer in Grenada.

   1891 July 8, L. S., “Twenty Hidden Towns in One State”, in Good Housekeeping […], volume XIII, number 2 (154 overall), Springfield, Mass., published August 1891, →OCLC, page 95, column 1

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   The people of Israel knew something of hunting, as in the stories of eating hart and roebuck, and venison.

   1999, James B[iser] Whisker, “Hunting in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition”, in The Right to Hunt, revised edition, Bellevue, Wash.: Merril Press, →ISBN, page 38

   Still, the people of Israel certainly knew about hunting, because they ate hart (red deer) and roe deer.

   2003, Richard D. Taber, Neil F. Payne, “Ancient Warrior-Rulers”, in Wildlife, Conservation, and Human Welfare: A United States and Canadian Perspective, Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 30

3. archaiccountableuncountableThe stag of any deer species.

plural harts

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of heart.

   For this reliefe much thanks, tis bitter cold, / And I am ſick at hart.

   c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], signature B, recto

plural harts

1. computingIn 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.

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”) (see Old Irish art (“bear”))
3. A village and civil parish in Hartlepool borough, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4735).
4. A local government district in northeastern Hampshire, England.
5. A tributary of the River Whitewater in Hampshire and ultimately of the Thames; in full, the River Hart.
6. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A ghost town in the Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California.
   2. A city, the county seat of Oceana County, Michigan.
   3. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Winona County, Minnesota.
   4. An unincorporated community in McDonald County, Missouri.
   5. A ghost town in Macon County, Missouri.
   6. A minor city in Castro County, Texas.
   7. A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Hart Township.
7. A locality in the Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia.
8. A locality in Wakefield Regional council area, Mid North region, South Australia.

plural HARTs

1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of hazardous area response team.