fence month
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
fence month (plural fence months)
- (colloquial, dated) The month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited.
- 1644, Edw[ard] Coke, The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for W[illiam] Lee, and D[aniel] Pakeman, →OCLC:
- Merfis vetitus, fence month, or defence month
References[edit]
- “fence month”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.