prongbuck
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
References
[edit]- “prongbuck”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.