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deer-hay en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) A buckstall.
    • Juſtice oſ Peace to determine uſing Deer Hays, Buckſtalls or Engines to catch Herons. 1676, Joseph Keble, “Peace”, in The Statutes at Large in Paragraphs from Magna Carta Until this Time, […] , London:
    • II. Stat. 19 H. 7. 11. None ſhall keep any Deer-hays or Buck-ſtalls, ſave in his own Foreſt or Park, […] 1689, An Exact Abridgment Of all the Statutes in Force and Use From the beginning of Magna Charta, London, page 297:

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