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A male deer with branched antlers, borne in its own set of attitudes.
Also known as: Hart, Attires
Deer have their own vocabulary of attitudes in blazon — lodged, trippant, springing, at gaze — rather than the lion's rampant and passant. The distinction is a good illustration of how precise blazon is about pose.
A male deer with branched antlers, a common charge in European and especially German and Hungarian arms.
Borne in attitudes specific to deer rather than the terms used for beasts of prey: lodged for lying down, trippant for walking, springing for leaping, and at gaze for standing with the head turned to the viewer.
The antlers borne alone are blazoned attires, and a stag's head cut off at the neck and shown facing the viewer is a caboshed head.
A male deer in profile with a slender body and large branched antlers rising from its head.