knobbler

plural knobblers

1. animal husbandryhobbiesSynonym of knobber (young male deer).

   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.

   1971, Country life, volume 150

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   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

   1931, John Buchan, Blanket Of The Dark, page 51

   Synonyms: knobber