roebuck
Americannoun
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roebucks,
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roebuck
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noun
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of roebuck
First recorded in 1350–1400, roebuck is from the Middle English word robucke. See roe 2, buck 1
Example Sentences
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You were always able to roebuck and rewrite your part.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2015
Some of Germany's choicest hunting grounds, forbidden to the vanquished for the past six years, will still be reserved for American sportsmen hankering after a bit of pheasant, roebuck or rabbit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their hero slays the "wary roebuck," sears the wild West Wind, hunts down "monsters and magicians," wendigoes and kenabeeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bleater instruction sheet suggests that the hunter render the fiep with "trembling hands," then promptly swing his gun to his shoulder and brace himself for the charge of a romantic roebuck.
From Time Magazine Archive
After we had killed the first wapiti we did not fire a shot for two days, even though roebuck were all about us and we wanted a series for the Museum.
From Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' by Roy Chapman Andrews
In the inclosure there were a large number of stags, wild boars, roebucks, and foxes.
From The Story of Versailles by Francis Loring Payne
There were plenty of deer and antelope roundabout, yielding good sport to any rifleman, but this exile cared nothing for them; they were not roebucks, and they could not be chased with his beloved dachshunds.
From Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches by Theodore Roosevelt
At noon two does, seven roebucks and two foxes had been bagged.
From The Companions of Jehu by Alexandre Dumas père
It is the birds in the trees, the insects in the grass, the roebucks and the stags in the coppices, and even the little fishes splashing the quiet water with their beating fins.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola
The emperor lives thus till about Easter, hunting cranes, swans, hares, stags, roebucks, &c., and then returns to his capital, Cambaluc.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World by Dora Leigh
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