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roebuck

[ roh-buhk ]

noun

plural roebucks, (especially collectively) roebuck.
  1. a male roe deer.


roebuck

/ ˈ°ùəʊˌ²úÊŒ°ì /

noun

  1. the male of the roe deer
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Origin of roebuck1

First recorded in 1350–1400, roebuck is from the Middle English word robucke. See roe 2, buck 1
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A spokesman said: "A passing boat tried to aid the rescue and lassoed the deer, unfortunately drowning the three-year-old roebuck."

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You were always able to roebuck and rewrite your part.

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The Doctor thinks it the horn of a roebuck, or of the Ibex mas.

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The walls are hung with trophies of sport, a forest of stags' horns, including wild fallow, wapiti, red-deer, chamois, and roebuck.

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Archie knew every yard of country, and he rather liked heading his Lilliputian nag right away for a knoll or precipice, and bounding off it like a roebuck or Scottish deerhound.

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