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brocket
(bräk′it)
noun
- a two-year-old, male European red deer during its second stage of antler growth
- any of a genus (Mazama) of small South and Central American deer with short, unbranched antlers
Origin: ME broket < Anglo-Norm broquet, yearling (of roe deer) < OFr broc, a spit, tine of a stag's horn: see broach
See brocket in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- A two-year-old red deer with its first horns.
- Any of several small South American deer of the genus Mazama, having short unbranched horns.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English broket
Origin: , from Old French brocard
Origin: , from broque, animal's horn
Origin: , dialectal variant of broche, spit; see broach1
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