hart

noun

1. (countable)A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.

   “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.”

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

2. (uncountable)The meat from this animal.

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

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

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

3. (archaic, countable, uncountable)The stag of any deer species.
4. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of heart.

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

5. In 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.”

6. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of hazardous area response team.

name

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.
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13. A locality in the Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia.
14. A locality in Wakefield Regional council area, Mid North region, South Australia.