hart

/hɑɹt/
noun

A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.

NWL Collins ENABLE

Noun 3 meanings

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

  2. The meat from this animal.

  3. 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.”

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Where it comes from

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.

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HART at a glance

HART has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (H 4 + A 1 + R 1 + T 1) and 6 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,588 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.

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