fence month

noun

noun

Colloquial, Dated The month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited.

Merfis vetitus, fence month, or defence month1644, Edw[ard] Coke, The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for W[illiam] Lee, and D[aniel] Pakeman, →OCLC:

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