In various specific uses of sense 31. To kill or wound (deer) with an arrow or spear, or with a gunshot. Said also of the weapon.

transitive. Hunting. To chase (a deer) back into a forest. Also occasionally intransitive.

To trace (a stag) to his ‘harbour’ or lair. Also transferred.

To discover the ‘lodge’ of (a buck).

transitive. To turn (anything) off, aside, or away; in Hunting, to ‘head back’ the deer in his flight.

transitive to find (a deer, fox, etc.) after the scent has been lost (also intransitive).

To bind with a withe or withes; U.S. to take (deer) with a noose made of withes.

To decoy (game, esp. deer) by waving some object like a flag to excite the animal's attention or curiosity.

To shoot deer in their yards.