roebuck
nounUK /ˈɹəʊ.bʌk/
Etymology From Middle English roobukke; equivalent to roe + buck (“male deer”). Doublet of rhebok.
1
A male roe deer.
- From the thick copse the roebucks bound, The startled red-deer scuds the plain […]1807, “Cadyow Castle”, in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, volume 4, Walter Scott:
- Derived terms
- roebuck-berry