buckstall

English

Alternative forms

  • buck-stall

Etymology

From buck +‎ stall.

Noun

buckstall (plural buckstalls)

  1. (archaic) A net used for catching deer.
    • 1867, Georgiana Fullerton, A Stormy Life: A Novel:
      Our ambushed troops, like cataracts falling into a torrent, joined the vanguard, and as fishes in a net or deer in a buckstall, the enemies were surrounded, closed, hemmed in.

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