buckstall

English

Alternative forms

• buck-stall

Etymology

buck +‎ stall

Noun

buckstall (plural buckstalls)

1. (archaic) A net used for catching deer.
   • 1867, Georgiana Fullerton, A Stormy Life: A Novel:

     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.

References

• “buckstall”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.