roebuck

American  

[roh-buhk] / ˈroʊˌbʌk /

noun

roebucks, plural roebuck plural

1. a male roe deer.

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roebuck British  

/ ˈrəʊˌbʌk /

noun

1. the male of the roe deer

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• roebuck
  plural
• roebucks
  plural

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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roebuck roebucks

You were always able to roebuck and rewrite your part.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2015

Keitel was a frustrated farmer who, on his rare wartime leaves, loved nothing more than to muck about his Brunswick estate of Helmscherode, buying new farm implements or hunting roebuck and wild boar.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Andrews, Roy Chapman

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 Zola, Émile

Aurore was delighted to find a vast park with thickets in which there were roebucks bounding about.

From George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings by Hallard, Alys

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 Roosevelt, Theodore

There are also deere of several countries, white, spotted like leopards; antelopes, an elk, red deere, roebucks, staggs, Guinea goates, Arabian sheepe, etc.

From Royalty Restored by Molloy, J. Fitzgerald (Joseph Fitzgerald)

In these mountains they hunt lions, bears, stags, roebucks, deer, and wolves.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert