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beast of venery

beast of venery noun: a game animal.

Noun

beast of venery (plural beasts of venery)

  1. A game animal.
    • But soon enough he’d wake up the second, real time, to make again the tiresome discovery that it hadn’t really ever stopped being the same simple-minded, literal pursuit; V. ambiguously a beast of venery, chased like the hart, hind or hare, chased like an obsolete, or bizarre, or forbidden form of...1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.

Forms of beast of venery

pluralbeasts of venery

Origin of beast of venery

beast + of + venery

Questions about beast of venery

What does beast of venery mean?
Beast of venery means a game animal.
What part of speech is beast of venery?
Beast of venery is a noun.
What is the plural of beast of venery?
The plural of beast of venery is beasts of venery.

Words near beast of venery in the dictionary

  1. beast mode
  2. beast of burden
  3. beast of draft
  4. beast of draught
  5. beast of prey
  6. beast of venery
  7. beast on
  8. beast with two backs
  9. beast-gate
  10. beast-gates
  11. beastdom

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