knobbler
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knobbler (plural knobblers)
- (hunting, animal husbandry) A young hart (male deer) in its second year.
- 1931, John Buchan, Blanket Of The Dark, page 51:
- They had begun by running a knobbler in the Shabbington coverts, but in the afternoon the sport had been better, for they had found a stag of ten in the oak wood by Stanton
- 1971, Country life, volume 150:
- This was explained when we got up to the beasts, for they were all dead, six of them: five hinds and calves and a small knobbler. They had been struck by lightning.
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- “knobbler”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.