DEERS
Noun
deers
(dated or nonstandard) plural of deer
Usage notes
Modern usage is likely to be regarded as an error or indicative of nonstandard speech. The standard (irregular) plural is deer.
Occasionally used in the sense of more than one species, especially when appearing in combination (such as red deer / red deers).
Anagrams
• Seder, dere's, deres, drees, redes, reeds, resed, seder
Proper noun
DEERS
(US) Defense Enrollment and Eligibility Reporting System.
Anagrams
• Seder, dere's, deres, drees, redes, reeds, resed, seder
Source: Wiktionary
DEER
Deer, n. sing. & pl. Etym: [OE. der, door, animal, wild animal, AS.
deór; akin to D. dier, OFries. diar, G. thier, tier, Icel. d, Dan.
dyr, Sw. djur, Goth. dius; of unknown origin.
1. Any animal; especially, a wild animal. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Mice and rats, and such small deer. Shak.
The camel, that great deer. Lindisfarne MS.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related
genera of the family Cervidæ. The males, and in some species the
females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed
annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison.
Note: The deer hunted in England is Cervus elaphus, called also stag
or red deer; the fallow deer is C. dama; the common American deer is
C. Virginianus; the blacktailed deer of Western North America is C.
Columbianus; and the mule deer of the same region is C. macrotis. See
Axis, Fallow deer, Mule deer, Reindeer.
Note: Deer is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a
compound; as, deerkiller, deerslayer, deerslaying, deer hunting, deer
stealing, deerlike, etc. Deer mouse (Zoöl.), the white-footed mouse
(Hesperomys leucopus) of America.
– Small deer, petty game, not worth pursuing; -- used
metaphorically. (See citation from Shakespeare under the first
definition, above.) "Minor critics . . . can find leisure for the
chase of such small deer." G. P. Marsh.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition