prongbuck
English
Etymology
prong + buck
Noun
prongbuck (plural prongbucks)
- (dated) The springbok.
- The pronghorn
- 1905, Theodore Roosevelt, Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter:.
- Thus the whitetail deer had thrust forward along the very narrow river bottoms into the domain of the mule-deer and the prongbuck among the foothills of the Rocky Mountains
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References
- prongbuck in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913