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fence months

fence months is the plural of fence month.

Meaning of fence month

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

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What is fence months the plural of?
Fence months is the plural of fence month.

Words near fence months in the dictionary

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

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