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brocket|ˈbrɒkɪt|
Forms: 5–7 broket, 7 brockett, brochet, 6– brocket.
[ad. F. brocart, broquart, f. broque, broche broach: see -ard. Cf. brocard2.]
1. A stag in its second year with its first horns, which are straight and single, like a small dagger. (Sometimes incorrectly a deer in its third year.)
a1425in Rel. Antiq. I. 151 The hert..the fyrst yere he is a calfe, the secunde yere a broket, the .iij. yere a spayer. 1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 179 Heyrdis of hertis throw the thyk wod schaw, Baith the brokettis, and with brayd burnyst tyndis. 1611Cotgr., Brocart, a two-yeare old Deere; which if he bee a red Deere, we call a Brocket; if a fallow, a Pricket. 1881Greener Gun 510 To shoot a staggart, brocket, suckling, hind or calf is unwarrantable.
2. A genus of deer of Brazil, having only short prongs for horns.
1837Penny Cycl. VIII. 361/2 The Brockets (Les Daguets) of the French. 1850Swainson Quadrup. §301 The brockets of the New World constitute the subulonine group of Major Smith.
†3. brocket-sister, a female deer of the second (or erron. third) year. Obs.
1625in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1721) III. ii. App. 8 A Hind and a Brocket Suster, being then both out of Season. 1677N. Cox Gentl. Recreations i. (1706) 7 A Hinde..is called..the second year a Hearse; and sometimes we say Brockets Sister. 1696Phillips s.v. Brock.
4. dial. See quots. (Probably a distinct word.)
1769Pennant Tour Scotl. 36 Sea-larks, [called] here [Farne Islands] brokets. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Broket..the sea-lark is so called at the Farne Islands. |