† backbearn.
Obsolete.
In Forest Law: The act of carrying on the back venison killed illegally. (Cf. back-berend adj.)
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1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest xviii. f. 114v Backe beare is, where any man hath slaine a wild beast..& is found carying away of the same.
1667 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i. iii. vi. 186 Taken either at dog-draw..back-bear, or bloodyhand.
1866 Chambers's Jrnl. 261.
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