Antler vs Wrack - What's the difference?
antler | wrack |
A branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs. They are grown and shed each year. (Compare with horn, which is generally not shed.)
(archaic, dialectal, or, literary) Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
(archaic, except in dialects) Ruin; destruction.
The remains; a wreck.
(archaic) Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore, or the right to claim such items.
Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the genus Fucus .
Weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
A high flying cloud; a rack.
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As nouns the difference between antler and wrack
is that antler is a branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs. They are grown and shed each year. (Compare with horn, which is generally not shed. while wrack is vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.As a verb wrack is
to execute vengeance; avenge.antler
English
(wikipedia antler)Noun
(en noun)- While hiking in the woods, I found an antler from a deer .
Anagrams
*wrack
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from a merger of (etyl) (m), .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (and (etyl)) (m) (cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds. }}