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roebuck|ˈrəʊbʌk|
Forms: α. 5 ra(a)buke, rabukk, 6 raybuck, Sc. rebuke. β. 4–6 ro-, 5 roo-, 6 rho-, rowe-, 5, 7 roebucke, 6– roebuck.
[f. roe1 + buck. Cf. MDu. reebuck (Du. -bok), OHG. rêhbock (G. rehbock), ON. rábukkr (MSw. robuk, Sw. råbock).]
The buck or male of the roe-deer; a male roe.
α14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 700 Hec capra, a rabuke. 1471Exch. Rolls Scotl. VIII. 36 De ij capitibus de rabukkis. 1483Cath. Angl. 298/1 Raa buke, capreus, caprea. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 338 Wther small beistis as re and rebuke.
β1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xxxi. (Bodl. MS.), Ceruus is þe name of þe herte of þe bucke and of þe Robucke. c1410Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) iii, He is more lasse þen an hert and he is more þenn a Roo bucke. 1486Bk. St. Albans e ij b, A fayre Roobucke and a fayre doo. 1530Palsgr. 263/1 Rho bucke, a beest. 1575Turberv. Venerie 143 He is not called a greate Rowebucke, but a fayre Rowbucke. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. vi. 24 He would him make.. the Robuckes in flight to overtake. 1608Topsell Serpents (1658) 739 They took them to be Serpents, being in quantity as big as Roe-bucks. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 106 Roe-buck. The flesh is better than that of other wild creatures. 1732T. Lediard Sethos II. ix. 296 This natural wall along which..a Roe-buck would hardly have clamber'd. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) III. 71 They resemble the roe-buck in the colour and nature of their hair. 1801Shaw Gen. Zool. II. 288 It is about the size of the common or European Roebuck. 1881Greener Gun 513 Roe bucks are occasionally stalked with the ·360 Express rifle.
attrib.c1410Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) iv, Þe Roo bucke flessh is most holsome to eete of eny. 1551Records of Elgin (New Spald. Cl.) I. 107 Tua raybuck skynnis. 1801Shaw Gen. Zool. II. 289 A pair of horns of some animal of the Roebuck kind. 1892Macpherson Fauna Lakeland 72 A coat of arms which included three Roebuck heads. |