deerslayer
nounEtymology From deer + slayer.
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One who kills deer.
- He has been so often seen in pictures dressed like a deerslayer that many people feel sure that he is a dead shot in the class with Kit Carson, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone and Buffalo Bill — yet he can not eat his soup until he puts on his glasses.1910, Edward Garstin Smith, The Real Roosevelt, London: C. F. Cazenove; Chicago, Ill.: The States Publishing Company, page 48:
- The Pennsylvania highlands not only provide the sport of American deer hunting with nostalgic myths, legends and famous tales of crafty old deerslayers, but set the historic background for one such deerslayer who remains a legend in his own time.1984, Robert Wegner, Deer & Deer Hunting: The Serious Hunter’s Guide, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 6, column 2:
1 more example
- He’d enjoyed the rush of peering in a window at the deerslayers, but invariably they’d just been smoking like chimneys, drinking to excess, overeating, and acting like yahoos.2004, Bryce Muir, Local Myths: Stories & Sculpture, Will-Dale Press, →ISBN, page 113:
- Derived terms
- deerslayer cap, deerslayer hat