knobbler

noun
/ˈnɒb.lə/UK/ˈnɑb.lɚ/US

Etymology

From knobble + -er.

  1. inherited from knoble
  2. suffixed as knobbler — “knobble + er

Definitions

  1. Synonym of knobber (young male deer).

    • They had begun by running a knobbler in the Shabbington coverts, but in the afternoon the sport had been better, for they had found a stag of ten in the oak wood by Stanton
    • This was explained when we got up to the beasts, for they were all dead, six of them: five hinds and calves and a small knobbler. They had been struck by lightning.

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