roebuck
Americannoun
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roebucks,
plural
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roebuck
plural
noun
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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
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You were always able to roebuck and rewrite your part.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2015
Their hero slays the "wary roebuck," sears the wild West Wind, hunts down "monsters and magicians," wendigoes and kenabeeks.
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
Sent it singing on its errand, To the red heart of the roebuck; 80Threw the deer across his shoulder, And sped forward without pausing.
From The Song of Hiawatha An Epic Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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 Alys Hallard
Stags, goats, reindeer, chamois, gazelles, roebucks, oxen, buffaloes, all the beasts with horned foreheads, belong to the ruminants.
From The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals by Jean Macé
Methinks the great king has issued out a proclamation strictly inhibiting the destroying of stags, does, wild boars, roebucks, or other royal game, on pain of death.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Peter Anthony Motteux
He replied: "In our forests there are nothing but stags, foxes, roebucks, and boars, with here and there a forester's house."
From Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant
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
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