STAG

,—the sporting term for a young GAME COCK during his second year. For the whole of the first year, he is called a chicken ; from which time to the completion of the second, he is a STAG ; and from thence forward, a COCK . In regular matches and mains for considerable sums of money, very few are brought to Pit before they are of that age; unle it is made, and so agreed on both sides, in which case it is called a stag main, or main of stags. See Cocking , Game Cock , and Cock-pit Royal .