单词 | buck-stall |
释义 | † buck-stalln. Obsolete exc. Historical. A large net for catching deer. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > net > net for deer buck-stall1503 deer-hay1503 1503 Act 19 Hen. VII xi The greatest Destruction of Red Deer..is with Nets called Deer-hays and Buck-stalls. 1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. iii. 81 Knit thy torne Buck-stals with well-twisted threds. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 317 Sir Henry pitcht a Buckstall (wherewith he used to take Deer in the Forest) in the narrowest place of the Marsh. 1866 J. G. Edgar Runnymede xxvii. 156 We may be dealt with as deer in a buckstall. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1503 |
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