ROEBUCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roebuck mean? 

• ROEBUCK (noun)
  The noun ROEBUCK has 1 sense:

1. male roe deer

  Familiarity information: ROEBUCK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROEBUCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Male roe deer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("roebuck" is a kind of...):

Capreolus capreolus; roe deer (small graceful deer of Eurasian woodlands having small forked antlers)

 Context examples 

Red upon white, said Alleyne, shading his eyes; but whether roebuck or no is more than I could vouch.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But see, mes garcons, on this side of the church rises the square and darkling tower of Earl Salisbury's castle, and even from here I seem to see on yonder banner the red roebuck of the Montacutes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Over the door the travellers could discern the escutcheon of the Montacutes, a roebuck gules on a field argent, flanked on either side by smaller shields which bore the red roses of the veteran constable.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)