• Deerflesh

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    Origin

    From deer + flesh.

    Full definition of deerflesh

    Noun

    deerflesh

    (uncountable)
    1. (rare) The meat or flesh of a deer; venison.
      • 1895, John Douglas Cook, Philip Harwood, Walter Herries Pollock, The Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art: Volume 80:The dogs, insufficiently fed on walrus, had begun to give out one after the other, and the frozen deerflesh, of which the party had not even full rations, ill supplied the place of pemmican.
      • 2001, Mary Buff, Conrad Buff, The Apple and the Arrow:The good cider and deerflesh they had eaten at the Inn at Altdorf that morning spilled from them into the water.

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