The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
Defn: One of the terminal branches or divisions of the beam of the antler of the stag or other large deer.
Defn: An aboriginal weapon consisting of a stone or piece of antler fastened to the end of a slender wooden handle, used by American Indians from the Great Plains to the Mackenzie River.
This takes place through a general deterioration of the antler base accompanied by some reabsorption of tissues at that point.
The western manner of counting the points consists of numbering those of oneantler only; the method often used in the East counts all of the points of both.
In old age, the antler development will usually dwindle with each succeeding year until, in senility, they may be as small as those of a young deer.
The second night passed, and as it began to grow light again our friend lifted himself on his knees and his hind-legs, and wrestled mightily with his horrible bed-fellow; and suddenly his left antler came loose from his head.
Anyhow, it made him a rather queer-looking buck, with one perfect antler and one spike.
And even that spike antlerwas not without its advantages, as he learned a little later.
The hound's fate had shown him what that spike antler could do; and when he saw it bearing down on him at full tilt he dropped his gun and ran for his life to his dug-out canoe.
The enemy exposed his left side, in an unguarded moment, and before he could recover himself that deformed antler had dealt him a terrible thrust.
The blood was running down his face from the pedicel where the antler had stood, and he was so weak and dizzy that his legs could hardly carry him, and so thin and wasted that he seemed the mere shadow of his former self.
The edge of the antler came sweeping through the air, and he saw no more.
Ugh-lomi felt the rush coming, and hurling the antler at Uya, turned about and fled.
Seeing Ugh-lomi in peril, Eudena ran sideways, looking back, threw up her arms and cried aloud, just as the antler flew.
Glancing over her shoulder as they crossed another open space, Eudena saw that Ugh-lomi was many yards behind her, and Uya close upon him, with antler already raised in the air to strike him down.
Reindeer antler is substituted for the ivory of the Eskimo weapon.
It usually has a blade made from the brow antler or one of the broad palms from the horns of the reindeer.
Pots are suspended over the fire with pothooks of reindeer antlerhung up by a loop of thong.
Spoons to lift pieces of floating meat from the hot liquor in which it is cooked, are made of reindeer antler and of wood.
In the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base.
One of the terminal branches or divisions of the beam of the antler of the stag or other large deer.
It took many blows, for the antler stuff is very thick and strong at this time, but the horn was loose at last.
The scratching places he had made were efforts to regain the use of this limb, and at one of them the deer had fallen and parted the rag of skin by which the antler hung.
Rolf's first shot had hit the antler near the base, breaking it, except for the skin on one side, and had stunned the buck.
With hatchet in hand he came gently in front, and selecting an exposed part at the base of the dead buck's antler he gave a sharp blow with the hatchet.
If the two antlers do not have the same number of ends the number of ends on the largerantler is multiplied by two and the word "odd" is placed before the word designating the number of ends.
The remaining antler draws down one side of the head and is very inconvenient for the animal.
For instance, if one antler has three ends and the other four, the antler would be termed an "odd" eight-ender.
Followers came in with a whoop behind them onAntler Creek.
This was the spring of '61; and Antler Creek proved only the beginning of the rush to Cariboo.
Up to the time when the antler has acquired the full growth which it is to attain in each year, this skin continues to receive the requisite flow of blood; it retains, in fact, its living action.
The base of the brow-antler is surrounded by a circle of small bony excrescences, which afford a passage to the blood vessels intended to provide for the growth of the antler; these are called burrs.
In the full grown animal the antler is composed of a cylindrical or flattened stem, according to the genus, which is called the brow-antler, from which branch out at intervals slighter or shorter additions, called tines or branches.
How much of all these yarns about gold up at Antler and Williams Creek do you believe, colonel?
But there, there's the music, come along;" and once more Lilla bore away the best waltzer in Antler to the tune of some slow rhythmical German air.
When Antler was found in 1860 the bed-rock was paved with gold, and you could not wash a shovelful of dirt that had not from five to fifty dollars' worth of dust in it.
The speakers were our old friends Ned Corbett and Steve Chance, and when Steve joined him Ned was sitting with his long gum boots tucked under a table in the Antler dance-house, smoking his evening pipe.
He calculated it at so much a pound, and told me that if I knew where to get fresh meat cheaper in Antler I'd better buy it.
Well, now you know what a "hurdy" was, and when I tell you that a troop of hurdies had just come up from Kamloops, you will understand that Antler was very much en fete on this particular June night.
When he reached the dance-house Lilla was waiting for him, and together the two turned their backs upon Antler and walked slowly away under the pines.
Why, it would almost have paid you to go to Antler instead of coming here.
What was five dollars a day, or ten, or even twenty for the matter of that, when other men were digging out fortunes daily on Williams Creek and Antler Cunningham's, and the Cottonwood?
All the women had learned to make hammers of antler by making two cuts near the base.
When Fleetfoot saw Antler roll the skins in a loose roll, he asked if she was going to chew them.
If no antler can be found let them examine the picture of one, so as to determine what part of it is used in making a dagger, a hammer, a baton, a tent peg, and an awl.
Several times people came from neighboring clans and askedAntler for food.
There is also variation in the markings, and chiefly of the central forked streak which has been likened to the antler of the stag.
I worked him over to it, caught it up, and then still holding him by his leftantler I laid that stave along his side until he was well punished, and glad when released to rush from that neighborhood.
Quickly I let go the right antler and shifted myself to the animal's left side, where by means of the left antler I pulled the struggling buck's head around to my side.
The main beam of the right antler had been, broken off half-way up, while the antlers were still in the velvet, which enabled us to fix the probable date of the encounter.
We've no proof that they've ever done us any harm; except, perhaps the time that Patsy saw the blood-trail and the antler marks in the snow.
As they came still closer there sounded the rattle ofantler upon antler as the herd backed in upon itself.
There's a long scratch, as if he had dragged the carcass to his shoulder as he started on, and an antler had dragged for two or three feet.
Somewhat similar talismanic power attached to the down from the young antlerof the deer when properly consecrated.
The haft is of reindeer antler in two longitudinal sections, between which the blade is wedged.
It is of about the same pattern as the common antler boxes, but is made of the butt end of the os penis of a large walrus, cut off square and hollowed out, and has ends of hard whale's bone.
Utkiavw[)i]n, has a peculiarly shaped blade, which is a bit of some steel tool imbedded in the end of a straight bit of antler 4 inches long.
The haft of reindeer antler and the lashing of broad thong are evidently newer than the head and are clumsily made and put on, the latter making several turns about one side of the haft as well as through it and round the head.
The blade is of thick sheet iron, which has in it a couple of rivet holes, and the haft of reindeer antler in two sections, held together by a large copper rivet at each end and a marline of sinew braid.
Bessels[N295] mentions seeing one bow, made of pieces of antler spliced together, in the possession of a man at Ita.
There are in the Museum three specimens of such antler bows, brought from Cumberland Gulf by Mr. Kumlien.
Antler is besides easily obtained, not only when the deer is killed for food, but by picking up shed antlers on the tundra, and is consequently employed for many purposes.
The haft is peculiar in being a piece of reindeer antler which has been reduced in thickness by sawing out a slice for 8 inches from the butt and bringing the two parts together with four stout wooden treenails about 11/2 inches apart.
The coyote howled, one short eager blast, and angled in between the herd and a straggler on the edge of it, a yearling elk, a spike bull, his first antler growth consisting of two pointed spikes eighteen inches long.
Horses etched on an antler from La Madelaine; from Taylor.
A spirited representation of two of these wild horses is engraved on an antler found at the station of La Madelaine in the Department of the Dordogne.
The figure above the crescent (moon or month) is intended for the antler of a deer, in allusion to the name of this moon.
To his surprise he found, on re-examining the antler a week or two later, when the wound around the ligatured artery was healed, that it had regained its warmth, and was still increasing in size.
He observed that theantler which obtained its blood supply therefrom, then half-grown, became in consequence cold to the touch.
Mating time had come, when bull seeks cow, and cow seeks bull, when angry eyes stare into angry eyes in the fight for the female, when antler meets antler, breaking the silence of the forest with mighty crashes.
The Swede’s bullet had struck the elk’s antler and was shattered, one bit of lead ricochetting and hitting the dog.
Two eyes gleamed wet in the moonlight, a tined antler crossed the harvest moon behind it.
Once in a while an antler would bang heavily against a tree-trunk.
The working tool is a point of antlerfirmly bound into a piece of ivory.
The arrow is roughly chipped by blows with a hammer, either direct or with a punch interposed, and is then finished by pressing off fine chips with a point ofantler set in an ivory handle.
With a point of antler from 4 to 6 inches long, they press against the edge, thus removing scales from the opposite side; they turn the flake around and over frequently, to preserve symmetry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antler" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
