deer-hay

noun

noun

Obsolete A buckstall.

Juſtice oſ Peace to determine uſing Deer Hays, Buckſtalls or Engines to catch Herons.1676, Joseph Keble, “Peace”, in The Statutes at Large in Paragraphs from Magna Carta Until this Time, […] , London:
II. Stat. 19 H. 7. 11. None ſhall keep any Deer-hays or Buck-ſtalls, ſave in his own Foreſt or Park, […]1689, An Exact Abridgment Of all the Statutes in Force and Use From the beginning of Magna Charta, London, page 297:

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