buckstall

noun

buckstall

noun

Etymology From buck + stall.

1

Archaic A net used for catching deer.

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.1867, Georgiana Fullerton, A Stormy Life: A Novel:

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