harts

Noun (1)

hart (countable and uncountable, plural hart or harts)

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.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...

   Synonyms:

   buck, stag

2. (uncountable) The meat from this animal.
   • We are to have hart for dinner on Jack’s birthday; you call it deer in Grenada.1891 July 8, L. S., “Twenty Hidden Towns in One State”, in Good Housekeeping […], volume XIII, number 2 (154 overall), Springfield, Mass., published August 1891, →OCLC, page 95, column 1
3. (archaic) The stag of any deer species.

Noun (2)

hart (plural harts)

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.

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