deerslayer

English

Etymology

From deer +‎ slayer.

Noun

deerslayer (plural deerslayers)

1. One who kills deer.
   • 1910, Edward Garstin Smith, The Real Roosevelt, London: C. F. Cazenove; Chicago, Ill.: The States Publishing Company, page 48:

     He has been so often seen in pictures dressed like a deerslayer that many people feel sure that he is a dead shot in the class with Kit Carson, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone and Buffalo Bill — yet he can not eat his soup until he puts on his glasses.

   • 1984, Robert Wegner, Deer & Deer Hunting: The Serious Hunter’s Guide, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 6, column 2:

     The Pennsylvania highlands not only provide the sport of American deer hunting with nostalgic myths, legends and famous tales of crafty old deerslayers, but set the historic background for one such deerslayer who remains a legend in his own time.

   • 2004, Bryce Muir, Local Myths: Stories & Sculpture, Will-Dale Press, →ISBN, page 113:

     He’d enjoyed the rush of peering in a window at the deerslayers, but invariably they’d just been smoking like chimneys, drinking to excess, overeating, and acting like yahoos.

Derived terms

• deerslayer cap
• deerslayer hat