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† ˈbuck-stall Obs. exc. Hist.
[f. buck n.1 + stall.]
A large net for catching deer.
1503Act 19 Hen. VII, xi, The greatest Destruction of Red Deer..is with Nets called Deer-hays and Buck-stalls. 1613W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. iii. (1772) II. 131 Knit thy torne Buck-stals with well-twisted threds. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. vi. 317 Sir Henry pitcht a Buckstall (wherewith he used to take Deer in the Forest) in the narrowest place of the Marsh. 1870Edgar Runnymede 156 We may be dealt with as deer in a buckstall. |