Stag Terms

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I learned today that in medieval hunting terms, a stag had six different names depending on age! I found that pretty fascinating. From Wikipedia, "a stag in its first year was called a "calf" or "calfe", in its second a "brocket", in its third a "spayed", "spade", or "spayard", in its fourth a "staggerd" or "staggard", and in its fifth a "stag", or a "great stag". To be a "hart" was its fully mature state". How interesting!