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Webster 1913 Edition


Deerstalker

Deer′stalkˊer

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Noun.
1.
One who practices deerstalking.

Definition 2024


deerstalker

deerstalker

See also: deer stalker

English

Noun

deerstalker (plural deerstalkers)

  1. One who takes part in deer stalking.
  2. Alternative form of deerstalker hat
    • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “chapter XII”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
      “Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, I'll eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire.