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buckstall

noun

Etymology

From buck + stall.

  1. derived from *stel-✻ — “to place, put, post, stand”
  2. inherited from *stallaz✻
  3. inherited from steall
  4. inherited from stall
  5. compounded as buckstall — “buck + stall”

Definitions

  1. A net used for catching deer.

    • Our ambushed troops, like cataracts falling into a torrent, joined the vanguard, and as fishes in a net or deer in a buckstall, the enemies were surrounded, closed, hemmed in.

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