English

Noun

knobbler ‎(plural knobblers)

1. (hunting, animal husbandry) The hart in its second year; a young deer.
   • 1931, John Buchan, Blanket Of The Dark, page 51:

     They had begun by running a knobbler in the Shabbington coverts, but in the afternoon the sport had been better, for they had found a stag of ten in the oak wood by Stanton

   • 1971, Country life, volume 150:

     This was explained when we got up to the beasts, for they were all dead, six of them: five hinds and calves and a small knobbler. They had been struck by lightning.

Synonyms

• knobber