Buckstall

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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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