Buck

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 510

Buck, a name sometimes distinctively appropriated to the adult male of the Fallow Deer (q.v.), the female of which is a Doe. But the term is often also applied to the male or other species of deer, as of the Roebuck (q.v.), although never to that of the Red Deer (see DEER), which, when mature, is a Stag or a Hart.

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