game-head

noun

A taxidermically preserved head of a game animal for display purposes.

Meanings

noungame-head (plural game-heads)

plural game-heads

  1. A taxidermically preserved head of a game animal for display purposes.

    Like a dado round the room was the jutting line of splendid heavy game-heads, the best of their sort from every quarter of the world, with the rare white rhinoceros of the Lado Enclave drooping its supercilious lip above them all.

    1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
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