hart
nounnounnouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//hɑːt//
- United States//hɑɹt//
A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
noun
- 1
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
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
archaicThe stag of any deer species.
Etymology
From Middle English hert, from Old English heorot (“stag”), from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz (compare Dutch hert, German Hirsch, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish hjort), from Pre-Germanic *kerudos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Doublet of Heorot. Cognates Compare Welsh carw (“deer”), Latin cervus (“deer”), cervīx (“nape of the neck”), Lithuanian kárvė (“cow”), Russian коро́ва (koróva, “cow”), Ancient Greek κόρυδος (kórudos, “crested lark”), κορυφή (koruphḗ, “summit, crown of the head”), κορύπτω (korúptō, “to butt with horns”), Avestan 𐬯𐬭𐬏 (srū), 𐬯𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬁 (sruuā, “horn; claw, talon”), Sanskrit शरभ (śarabhá, “mythical antelope”). More at horn.
noun
- 1
Variant of heartobsoleteObsolete spelling of heart.
For this reliefe much thanks, tis bitter cold, / And I am ſick at hart.
Etymology
See heart.
noun
- 1
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.
Etymology
Abbreviation of hardware thread. As stated in The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual, Volume I: The term hart was introduced in the work on Lithe (Pan et al., 2009) and (Pan et al., 2010) to provide a term to represent an abstract execution resource as opposed to a software thread programming abstraction. RISC-V Foundation The corresponding source reads: Our proposal has two main components. First, we export a new low-level unvirtualized hardware thread abstraction, or hart, from the operating system to applications. […] Heidi Pan, Benjamin Hindman, Krste Asanović
Forms
- plural
- harts
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