knobbler

knobble +‎ -er

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɒb.lə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑb.lɚ/

knobbler (plural knobblers)

1. (hunting, animal husbandry) A young hart (male deer) in its second year.
   • 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.

• knobber

• “knobbler”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.