DEER
ADJECTIVES
► BEAMY possessing full-grown horns; antlered → 1694
► FULL SUMMED of a stag: having a complement of antlers; also said of the antlers → 1576
► POLLED that has cast its antlers; later of a domestic animal: hornless → 1577
► SUMMED of a stag: having a complement of antlers; also said of the antlers → c1410
NOUNS
► ADVANCER a second branch of a buck’s horn → 1496
► BEAM the main trunk of a stag’s horn which bears the branches or ‘antlers’ → 1575
► BELL the cry of a stag or buck at rutting time → 1510
► BELLING the cry of deer in the rutting season; hence, the season itself → 1513
► BOSSET the rudimentary stub of a horn or antler on a young deer → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► BROCKET the male red deer in the second year, with the first growth of straight horns → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► BUNCH the horn of a young stag → 1686 obs.
► BUTTHEAD a cow, goat, or deer that has no horns → 1908 Amer. dial.
► CALF a deer, male or female, under one year old → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CAMP MEAT deer shot illegally → 1950 Amer. dial.
► CHICKEN IN A JAR any deer shot illegally → 1950 Amer. dial.
► COUNTY BEEF deer that has been illegally shot by poachers → 1967 Amer. dial.
► CRICKET a young deer → 1969 Amer. dial.
► CROTISING ► CROTIZING the excrement of a hare or deer → 1598 obs.
► CRUNCHER a large male deer → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► DAGGER the horn of a young stag → 1616 obs.
► DECIDENCE falling off, a shedding, as of deer antlers → 1646 obs.
► DEERICIDE the killing or killer of a deer → 1832
► DEERLET a little or tiny deer → 1878
► DEPRESSION MEAT deer shot illegally → 1967 Amer. dial.
► DOUCETS ► DOWSETS the testicles of a deer → 1560 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► EARNING the act of uttering the prolonged cry of hounds or deer → 1575 obs.
► ELENDE an elk → 1697 obs.
► FARMER’S BEAST an illegally shot deer or its meat → 1967 Amer. dial.
► FARMER’S BEEF an illegally shot deer or its meat → 1967 Amer. dial.
► FUMETS the excrement of a deer → 1400 obs.
► FUMISHING the excrement of a deer → 1527 obs.
► FURCH the hind quarters of a deer → 1491 obs.
► GARGILON the gullet or oesophagus of a deer → c1320 obs.
► GATE in hunting: the length of stride of a deer as shown by his footmarks → 1677 obs.
► GOAT MEAT the flesh of a deer killed out of season → 1937 Amer. dial.
► GOAT MUTTON the flesh of a deer killed out of season → 1953 Amer. dial.
► GOVERNMENT BEEF an illegally shot deer or its meat → 1967 Amer. dial.
► GOVERNMENT COW deer → 1933 Amer. dial.
► GOVERNMENT MEAT an illegally shot deer or its meat → 1967 Amer. dial.
► GOVERNMENT YEARLING deer → 1933 Amer. dial.
► GOVERNOR’S BEEF an illegally shot deer or its meat, venison → 1982 Amer. dial.
► GOVERNOR’S MEAT deer and other game shot out of season → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► HARSH a deer → 1930 Amer. dial.
► HAVIER a castrated stag → 1784 Eng. dial.
► HEAD the antlers of a deer, roe-buck, etc. → c1420 hunting usage
► HEARSE ► HEARST in hunting: a hind of the second or third year → 1674
► HEMLOCK STEAK any illegally shot deer or its meat → 1969 Amer. dial.
► JACK DEER a deer shot, illegally, by one who hunts a night using a light to stun the prey → L18 US sl.
► LIGHTFOOT the deer → a1600 obs.
► MACCARIB caribou → 1672 obs.
► MAUD a mule deer → 1942 Amer. circus sl. (Bk.)
► MUSON in hunting: the horn of a deer, when shed → 1552 obs.
► NANCY JULIA doe deer → 1921 Amer. dial.
► NATIVE BEEF moose, deer, when harvested out of season → 1979 Amer. dial.
► OFFER a knob or bud showing on a stag’s antler → 1884
► OLEN ► OLLEN a red deer, a stag → 1591 obs.
► PANTER a hart or male deer → L18 UK criminals’ sl.
► POLLARD a male deer that has cast its antlers; later: a hornless domestic animal of a breed that is typically horned → 1546 obs.
► PRICKET a male deer, esp. a fallow buck, in its second year, having straight unbranched antlers → 1425
► PRICKET’S SISTER a female fallow deer in its second year → 1657 obs.
► PRICKHEAD the first set of antlers of a fallow deer → 1688 obs.
► PRIME the print of a deer’s foot → 1847 obs.
► RACK a set of antlers → 1945 US sl.
► RACKWAY a path made by deer in a forest → 19C Eng. dial.
► RANGALE the common herd of deer → 1513 obs.
► RASCAL the young, lean, or inferior deer of a herd, distinguished from the full-grown antlered bucks or stags → 1399 obs. exc. Sc.
► RAUNCHER a large male deer → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► RIDGE RUNNER a deer ranging the beech ridges in the fall; hence, somebody well versed in the woods → 1975 Amer. dial.
► RIGHT DEER a deer six years old or more → 1875 Eng. dial.
► RIGHTS a stag’s full complement of antlers, consisting of the brow, bay, and tray → 1425 hunting usage
► SCUT the tail of an animal, esp. that of a rabbit or deer → 16C
► SINGLE in hunting: the tail of a deer → 1576
► SUBULON a young hart (with straight unbranched horns) → 1607 obs.
► SUET in hunting: the fat of deer → a1400 obs.
► TANG a prong or tine of a stag’s horn → 1688 Eng. dial.
► TINE each of the pointed branches of a deer’s horn → c1375
► UMBLES the edible inward parts of an animal, usually of a deer → a1400
► UNCLE SAM’S SHEEP illegally killed deer → 1968 Amer. dial.
► VALE one of the grooves in the beam of a hart’s antler → c1410 obs.
► VELLET HEAD ► VELVET HEAD the head of a deer while the horns are still covered with velvet → 1576 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► DEERICIDE the killer of a deer → 1832
► KILLBUCK the keeper of a deer-park → 1826 obs.
VERBS
► CABBAGE to cut off a deer’s head close behind the horns; to cut off the head of a deer → a1529 obs.
► CABOCHE to cut the head of a deer close behind the horns → a1425 obs.
► GRALLOCH to gut a deer → 1897 Amer. dial.
► JACK to hunt deer at night, illegally, with the aid of a light → M19 US sl.
► MAGGOT to damage the bark of young trees by nibbling at them here and there; said of deer → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MUSEN of a deer: to shed its antlers → 1623 obs.
► TOP THE BRUSH to leap or run through undergrowth, as a deer does → 1953 Amer. dial.
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