knobbler

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English

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Etymology

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From knobble +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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knobbler (plural knobblers)

  1. (hunting, animal husbandry) Synonym of knobber (young male deer).
    • 1931, John Buchan, Blanket Of The Dark, page 51:
      They had begun by running a knobbler in the Shabbington coverts, but in the afternoon the sport had been better, for they had found a stag of ten in the oak wood by Stanton
    • 1971, Country life, volume 150:
      This was explained when we got up to the beasts, for they were all dead, six of them: five hinds and calves and a small knobbler. They had been struck by lightning.

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