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单词 brocket
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brocketn.

Brit. /ˈbrɒkɪt/, U.S. /ˈbrɑkət/
Forms: Middle English–1600s broket, 1600s brockett, brochet, 1500s– brocket.
Etymology: < French brocart, broquart, < broque , broche broach n.1: see -ard suffix. Compare brocard n.2
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.)
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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.
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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.
3. brocket-sister n. Obsolete a female deer of the second (or erroneously third) year.
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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.)
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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).
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