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noun

antler

deciduous horn of a member of the deer family

In a sentence

Six example sentences with antler, each labelled with its topic.

  • A stag drops one antler in late winter, and rodents gnaw the bone for minerals within days.

    Environment

  • The carver shaped a spoon handle from a single antler, following its natural curve rather than cutting across it.

    Art

  • He waited four mornings in the hide before a bull elk turned so that one antler caught the low sun.

    Photography

  • An antler grows faster than any other bone in the animal kingdom, adding up to two centimetres a day in summer.

    Science

  • Stone Age people shaped picks from antler, and thousands of them lie at the bottom of Neolithic flint mines.

    History

  • Scouts in Jackson gather each shed antler from the elk refuge and auction them in the town square every May.

    Travel

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