buckstall
English
Alternative forms
- buck-stall
Etymology
Noun
buckstall (plural buckstalls)
- (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.
References
- “buckstall”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.