Obs. Also -antlier. [a. OF. surantoillier (Gaston de Foix): see SUR- and ANTLER.] The second branch of a deer’s horn, next above the brow-antler; = BEZ-ANTLER.
The term was copied from Turbervile by many later compilers, but appears to have had no real currency.
1576. Turberv., Venerie, xxi. 53. Antoiller … the Surantlier neare vnto the Antlier the which ought a little to enlarge it selfe some what more from the beame than the firste [Antlier].
[1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Navy Land Ships, Wks. I. 93/1. The hornes haue many dogmaticall Epithites, as a Hart hath the Burs, the Pearles, the Antliers, the Surantlers, the Royals, the Surroyals, and the Croches.]
