Deerflesh

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The meat or flesh of a deer; venison. rare, uncountable

    "The dogs, insufficiently fed on walrus, had begun to give out one after the other, and the frozen deerflesh, of which the party had not even full rations, ill supplied the place of pemmican."

Example

More examples

"The dogs, insufficiently fed on walrus, had begun to give out one after the other, and the frozen deerflesh, of which the party had not even full rations, ill supplied the place of pemmican."

Etymology

From deer + flesh.

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