单词 | brocket |
释义 | brocketn. 1. A stag in its second year with its first horns, which are straight and single, like a small dagger. (Sometimes incorrectly a deer in its third year.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > in its second year brocketa1425 pricketa1425 brockc1515 spittard1538 spitter1565 brocard1607 subulon1607 knub1617 knobber1677 knobbler1686 buck-fawn1786 a1425 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 151 The hert..the fyrst yere he is a calfe, the secunde yere a broket, the .iij. yere a spayer. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xii. Prol. 179 Heyrdis of hertis throw the thyk wod schaw, Baith the brokettis, and with brayd burnyst tyndis. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Brocart, a two-yeare old Deere; which if he bee a red Deere, we call a Brocket; if a fallow, a Pricket. 1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 510 To shoot a staggart, brocket, suckling, hind or calf is unwarrantable. 2. A genus of deer of Brazil, having only short prongs for horns. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Mazama (brocket) mazame1775 brocket1837 mazama1895 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 361/2 The Brockets (Les Daguets) of the French. 1850 W. Swainson Nat. Hist. Quadrupeds §301 The brockets of the New World constitute the subulonine group of Major Smith. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Cervidae (deer) > [noun] > female > in second year teg1530 brocket-sister1625 hearst1677 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Cervidae (deer) > [noun] > female > in third year hinda900 brocket-sister1625 hearst1677 1625 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1721) III. ii. App. 8 A Hind and a Brocket Suster, being then both out of Season. 1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation i. 3 A Hind..is called..the second year, a Brocket's sister. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) at Brock 4. dialect. See quots. (Probably a distinct word.) ΚΠ 1769 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 36 Sea-larks, [called] here [i.e. in the Farne Islands] brokets. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Broket..the sea-lark is so called at the Farne Islands. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1425 |
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