deer-hay

English

Noun

deer-hay (plural deer-hays)

1. (obsolete) A buckstall.
   • 1676, Joseph Keble, “Peace”, in The Statutes at Large in Paragraphs from Magna Carta Until this Time, […] ‎, London:

     Juſtice oſ Peace to determine uſing Deer Hays, Buckſtalls or Engines to catch Herons.

   • 1689, An Exact Abridgment Of all the Statutes in Force and Use From the beginning of of Magna Charta, London, page 297:

     II. Stat. 19 H. 7. 11. None ſhall keep any Deer-hays or Buck-ſtalls, ſave in his own Foreſt or Park, […]

Further reading

• “deer-hay, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.