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ˈdeer-hair, deer's hair
1. The hair of deer.
1494Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 19 Cushions, stuffed with Horse hair..Deers-hair, and Goats-hair.
2. The common name in Scotland and north of England of a small moorland species of club-rush, Scirpus cæspitosus.
1772–8Lightfoot Flora Scot. (1789) II. 1080 (App.) Scirpus cæspitosus Deer's Hair Scotis australibus. a1802Leyden Ld. Soulis lxvi, And on the spot, where they boil'd the pot, The spreat and the deer-hair ne'er shall grow. 1816Scott Old Mort. i, Moss, lichen, and deer-hair are fast covering those stones. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Borders 203 Deer's Hair. Abundantly on all our moors. |