Buckstall
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A net used for catching deer. archaic
"Our ambushed troops, like cataracts falling into a torrent, joined the vanguard, and as fishes in a net or deer in a buckstall, the enemies were surrounded, closed, hemmed in."
Example
More examples"Our ambushed troops, like cataracts falling into a torrent, joined the vanguard, and as fishes in a net or deer in a buckstall, the enemies were surrounded, closed, hemmed in."
Etymology
From buck + stall.
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