roebuck

Etymology

From Middle English roobukke; equivalent to roe + buck (“male deer”). Doublet of rhebok.

noun

  1. A male roe deer.
    From the thick copse the roebucks bound, The startled red-deer scuds the plain […] 1807, “Cadyow Castle”, in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, volume 4, Walter Scott

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