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brocket (bräk′it)

noun

  1. a two-year-old, male European red deer during its second stage of antler growth
  2. any of a genus (Mazama) of small South and Central American deer with short, unbranched antlers

Etymology: ME broket < Anglo-Norm broquet, yearling (of roe deer) < OFr broc, a spit, tine of a stag's horn: see broach

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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