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fence month

fence month noun: the month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited.

Noun

fence month (plural fence months)

  1. (colloquial, dated) The month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited.
    • Merfis vetitus, fence month, or defence month1644, Edw[ard] Coke, The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for W[illiam] Lee, and D[aniel] Pakeman, →OCLC

Forms of fence month

pluralfence months

Questions about fence month

What does fence month mean?
Fence month means the month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited.
What part of speech is fence month?
Fence month is a noun.
What is the plural of fence month?
The plural of fence month is fence months.

Words near fence month in the dictionary

  1. fence in
  2. fence line
  3. fence lines
  4. fence lizard
  5. fence lizards
  6. fence month
  7. fence months
  8. fence off
  9. fence post
  10. fence posts
  11. fence sitter

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