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