单词 | great buck |
释义 | > as lemmasgreat buck b. The male of the fallow-deer. (In early use perhaps the male of any kind of deer.) buck of the first head, great buck (see quot. 1774). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Cervus > cervus dama (fallow deer) > male bucka1000 havier1676 a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 119 Ceruus uel eripes, heortbuc. a1240 Cuckoo Song 10 Bulluc sterteþ, bucke uerteþ. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 45 She sigh..The buck, the doo, the hert. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 55 Buk, best, dama. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 10 The Deare..was a Bucke of the first head. View more context for this quotation 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia i. 3 He sent vs commonly euery day a brace of Bucks. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 128 The buck is..called..the fifth [year], a buck of the first head; and the sixth, a great buck. < as lemmas |
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