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deerflesh en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From deer + flesh.

Meanings

1. (rare, uncountable) The meat or flesh of a deer; venison.
   • A woman scuttled towards MacDonald, raising a knife in a hand where fragments of deerflesh clung. 2005, S. M. Stirling, The protector's war:
   • The good cider and deerflesh they had eaten at the Inn at Altdorf that morning spilled from them into the water. 2001, Mary Buff, Conrad Buff, The Apple and the Arrow:
   • The dogs, insufficiently fed on walrus, had begun to give out one after the other, and the frozen deerflesh, of which the party had not even full rations, ill supplied the place of pemmican. 1895, John Douglas Cook, Philip Harwood, Walter Herries Pollock, The Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art: Volume 80:

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Synonyms

venison · deermeat