Crockets
The points upon the top of a deer's horns.
Foil. The trail of the pursued game.
Fraying stock. -The stump of wood or stone which the stags use to rub off the VELVET (q.v.) from their horns.
Harbour.-(1) Of the deer; to take up settled abode in some covert. a (2) Of the harbourer; to track the deer to its favourite covert, and to make sure that it remains there.
Harling. The old Devonshire practice of taking a pack to covert roped together in couples. Havier. A castrated deer.
Hearst. A two-year-old hind.
Hind. The female of the red deer.
Hoop-headed.- Epithet of a deer whose horns, in place of spreading, tend to come together at the top.
Knobber.-[See BROCKET.] Layer. The spot at which the deer intended for pursuit couched over-night.
Lay on. To put a pack upon the trail of a stag after the tufters have driven him from cover.
Mewing. Old term for the shedding of deer's horns.
Nott. Of stags; hornless. a Pearls. The bony swellings that form a ring around the BURR (q.v.) of a deer's horns.
Pricket. A three-year-old stag. Also called SPIRE.
Rack. A gap in a hedge or fence through which a deer has passed.
Rights. The "rights" of a stag are his brow, bay, and tray antlers.
Rouse. To put a deer out of cover.
Run-up. A deer is said to be "run-up" when exhausted by the chase.
Set up. Of the hounds; to bring the deer to bay.
Single. The tail of the red deer.
Slot.-(1) The footmark of the deer. (2) The foot itself. (3) Verb: to trace a deer by his footprints.
Soil. Of the deer; to take to water. Hence the place to which he goes is called his soiling place, or shortly, his "soil." When he leaves it he is said to "break soil."
Spire.-[See PRICKET.] Staggart.-A stag in his fourth year.
Take. The successful conclusion of a run is always called the "take," whether the deer be killed or not.
Tine. A branch of the antlers.
Tray. The third projecting branch of a deer's horns, counting upwards from the head.
Tufters.--Selected and steady hounds put into covert in order to separate the deer intended for pursuit from the rest of the herd, and to put him out from cover.
Velvet. The network of arteries that covers and nourishes the growing horns. It is extremely tender, and bleeds freely if touched.
Warrantable stag.-A stag fit for hunting, i.e., in his fifth year or upwards.
Yeld. Of the hind; barren.
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