Stag vs. Horse — What's the Difference?

The adult male of various deer, especially the red deer.

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated one-toed hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus.

An animal, especially a pig, castrated after reaching sexual maturity.

A large plant-eating domesticated mammal with solid hoofs and a flowing mane and tail, used for riding, racing, and to carry and pull loads.

A person who attends a social gathering unaccompanied by a partner, especially a man who is unaccompanied by a woman.

A frame or structure on which something is mounted or supported, especially a sawhorse.

A social gathering for men only.

A unit of horsepower

Of or for men only

Heroin.

Pornographic

An obstruction in a vein.

Unaccompanied

Provide (a person or vehicle) with a horse or horses

To attend a social gathering unaccompanied by a partner. Used especially of men.

A large hoofed mammal (Equus caballus) having a short coat, a long mane, and a long tail, domesticated since ancient times and used for riding and for drawing or carrying loads.

(countable) An adult male deer.

An adult male horse; a stallion.

(countable) A colt, or filly.

Any of various equine mammals, such as the wild Asian species Przewalski's horse or certain extinct forms related ancestrally to the modern horse.

A romping girl; a tomboy.

A frame or device, usually with four legs, used for supporting or holding.

(countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).

(Sports) A vaulting horse.

An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.

(Slang) Heroin.

One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.

Often horses Horsepower

An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.

Mounted soldiers; cavalry

(countable) A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.

A block of rock interrupting a vein and containing no minerals.

Guard duty.

A large block of displaced rock that is caught along a fault.

(countable) A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).

To provide with a horse.

(countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.

To haul or hoist energetically

To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.

To be in heat. Used of a mare.

(transitive) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.

Of or relating to a horse

Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.

Mounted on horses

The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.

Drawn or operated by a horse.

A colt, or filly; also, a romping girl.

Larger or cruder than others in the same category

A castrated bull; - called also bull stag, and bull seg. See the Note under Ox.

A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.

Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.

The European wren.

(zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.

To act as a "stag," or irregular dealer in stocks.

Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).

To watch; to dog, or keep track of.

A component of certain games.

Male red deer

(slang) A large and sturdy person.

Adult male deer

(historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

Attend a dance or a party without a female companion

Equipment with legs.

Give away information about somebody;

In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.

Watch, observe, or inquire secretly

A frame with legs, used to support something.

(nautical) Type of equipment.

A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.

A breastband for a leadsman.

An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.

A jackstay.

(mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.

(US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E).

(uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.

(prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

Horseplay; tomfoolery.

(slang) Heroin drug.

(intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)

(transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.

(transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.

(obsolete) To get on horseback.

To sit astride of; to bestride.

(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).

To take or carry on the back.

To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.

(by extension) To flog.

(transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.

(informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.

To urge at work tyrannically.

To charge for work before it is finished.

A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (Equus caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.

The male of the genus Equus, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.

Mounted soldiery; cavalry; - used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; - distinguished from foot.

A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.

A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.

A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse - said of a vein - is to divide into branches for a distance.

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination; - called also trot, pony, Dobbin.

Heroin.

Horsepower.

To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.

To sit astride of; to bestride.

To mate with (a mare); - said of the male.

To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.

To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

To get on horseback.

Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

A padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

Troops trained to fight on horseback;

A framework for holding wood that is being sawed

A chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

Provide with a horse or horses