† stambuckn.
Obsolete. rare.
A wild goat.
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1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 143 What matter is it for him then to bee a goate, or a stambuck [It. stambecco], a kid or a chamoise.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. xxxii He..caught there..Stamboucs [Fr. Stamboucqs].
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