deer-hay

English

Noun

deer-hay (plural deer-hays)

  1. (obsolete) A buckstall.
    • 1676, Joseph Keble, “Peace”, in The Statutes at Large in Paragraphs from Magna Carta Until this Time, […] ‎[1], London:
      Juſtice oſ Peace to determine uſing Deer Hays, Buckſtalls or Engines to catch Herons.
    • 1689, An Exact Abridgment Of all the Statutes in Force and Use From the beginning of of Magna Charta, London, page 297:
      II. Stat. 19 H. 7. 11. None ſhall keep any Deer-hays or Buck-ſtalls, ſave in his own Foreſt or Park, […]

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