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buckstall

buckstall noun: a net used for catching deer.

Noun

buckstall (plural buckstalls)

  1. (archaic) A net used for catching deer.
    • 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.1867, Georgiana Fullerton, A Stormy Life: A Novel

Forms of buckstall

pluralbuckstalls
alternative formbuck-stall

Origin of buckstall

From buck + stall.

Questions about buckstall

What does buckstall mean?
Buckstall means a net used for catching deer.
What part of speech is buckstall?
Buckstall is a noun.
What is the plural of buckstall?
The plural of buckstall is buckstalls.

Words near buckstall in the dictionary

  1. bucksom
  2. bucksome
  3. bucksow
  4. bucksows
  5. Bucksport
  6. buckstall
  7. buckstalls
  8. buckstay
  9. buckstays
  10. Buckstone
  11. Buckstones

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